Pentagon
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PentagonDoD Wants Zero Orbital Debris Mitigation Exemptions By 2018
The Defense Department has a goal of eliminating exemptions to the federal government’s orbital debris mitigation standard practices by 2018, according to a key official. Office of the Secretary of […]
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PentagonWork: Pentagon Pursuing Offset Strategy Knowing Adversaries Will Steal Innovations
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said the Pentagon’s current effort to write a new offset strategy would be shaped by several factors: adversaries have the capability to rapidly steal new […]
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BudgetDempsey: DoD Will Submit FY’16 Request With Same Efficiencies Congress Already Rejected
The Defense Department will submit a fiscal year 2016 budget that is above the sequester spending caps and includes all the same efficiencies Congress has rejected for several years now, […]
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Business/FinancialCEO: Pentagon Should Help Industry Operate More Commercially
The defense industry is becoming more commercial and more globalized, and both defense contractors and the Pentagon need to use the ongoing acquisition reform efforts as an opportunity to adjust […]
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PentagonHagel Announces Defense Innovation Initiative with Long-Range R&D Plan, List of Focus Areas
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a new Defense Innovation Initiative on Saturday as a way to counter a shrinking technological superiority even as congressional unwillingness to allow certain cost-saving measures […]
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Air ForcePentagon to Invest Billions of Dollars, Senior Leadership Focus on Nuclear Forces
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced an effort to improve the entire nuclear enterprise, from modernizing support infrastructure to hiring more maintenance workers to attempting to change the culture of the […]
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Work: Congress Must Give Pentagon Budget Stability, Flexibility
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work sent an unambiguous message to Congress on its first day back after the midterm elections – “Stop this madness!” Speaking at the Center for Strategic […]
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PentagonGAO Rejects BAE Protest On Staffing Contract For JIEDDO
The Government Accountability Office said Monday it had rejected a BAE Systems protest challenging a task order award for technical and staff services for the Pentagon’s outfit designed to defeat […]
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Navy/USMCAegis BMD Hits Three Targets In Simultaneous Test
The Pentagon’s sea-based ballistic missile defense system known as Aegis successfully took out a short range ballistic missile and two low flying cruise missiles during a test on Thursday conducted […]
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ArmyIntegrating Open Systems On The EMS Poses Challenges, Army, Navy Officials Say
The integration of open architecture solutions on systems operating on the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) must include considering the overall operating environment on the EMS and threats posed in the cyberspace, […]
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