Pentagon
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CyberGAO Says DoD Should Do More to Help Small Businesses On Cybersecurity
The Defense Department can and should do more to help defense small businesses protect their networks from cyber threats, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released […]
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Homeland SecurityEmployee Satisfaction At DHS Remains Low
Only 47 percent of employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consider their department a good place to work, down a percent from 2014, according to an annual government-wide […]
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CyberOPM Says More Fingerprints Stolen Than Initially Thought
Several million more individuals had their fingerprints stolen in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hacks than the initially thought 1.1 million (Defense Daily, July 9), the agency said […]
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PentagonDoD Biometrics Official Says Focus Shifting To Future Threats, Technology Needs
TAMPA, Fla.—The Defense Department official that oversees biometric efforts across the DoD enterprise, including the science and technology portfolio, said Thursday at a conference here that his focus has shifted […]
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Air ForceAir Force/Navy Ballistic Missile Commonality Study Nearing Completion
The overseers of the Navy’s Trident 2 D-5 program and the Air Force’s soon-to-start acquisition of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent will by Oct. 17 brief key Defense Department brass on […]
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PentagonDoD Official Calls on Industry to Share Cost Data
A Pentagon official wants the defense industry to provide greater cost data on weapons program development and production to the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of a “growing partnership” […]
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Air ForceSecDef Carter Calls Sequester, Continuing Resolution A ‘Straitjacket’
With fewer than 14 days left in the federal fiscal year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned that both of the most-likely answers to the current budget impasse would be wasteful […]
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Air ForceNo Air Force Participation In Fiscal 2017 F-35 ‘Block Buy,’ Officer Says
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Though the Air Force is interested in a eventual multi-year “block buy” of F-35A conventional variant aircraft, it won’t be able to participate in one by fiscal year […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Grappling With Parts Management In Latest ALIS Software Version
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. –The F-35 program is grappling with a parts management issue in its currently fielded version of the aircraft’s Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) software, according to key […]
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CyberRogers Favors Cyber Information Sharing, Building Norms
Cyber information sharing is critically important in helping to begin addressing cybersecurity threats, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command and head of the National Security Agency (NSA) said Tuesday. “If […]