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Three cities have filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense, saying the system for reporting service members disqualified from gun ownership is broken. Three cities have filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense, saying the system for reporting service members disqualified from gun ownership is broken.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a Trump Administration request to stay District Judge Kollar-Kotelly's order that the military allow qualified transgender people to enlist beginning January 1. On December 11, District Judge Kollar-Kotelly denied the same request. Both the appeals court and Judge Kollar-Kotelly rejected the Administration's argument that the military would not be prepared to accept transgender recruits by January 1-a claim undercut by a Department of Defense memorandum issued December 8 which lays out guidance for processing transgender enlistees.
For five years, the Department of Defense secretly investigated reports of unidentified flying objects in a program called Advanced Aviation Threat Identification. The program from 2007 to 2012 cost the government $22 million, according to the New York Times, first to report it.
OGSystems , a leader in technology innovation for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community , has been awarded the MOJAVE Functional Area 2 : Security Support Services contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency . "We have invested heavily in data analytics, visualization, and system integration across the personnel, counterintelligence and insider threat missions," said Garrett Pagon, OGSystems President and co-founder.
According to Zacks, "AeroVironment, Inc. designs, develops, produces, operates a portfolio of products and services for government agencies, businesses and consumers. It operates through two segments: Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which focuses primarily on the design, development, production, support and operation of UAS and tactical missile systems that provide situational awareness, multi-band communications, force protection and other mission effects, and Efficient Energy Systems, which focuses primarily on the design, development, production, support and operation of electric energy systems.
ACTA specializes in risk mitigation analysis for operations that possess the potential for extraordinarily severe consequences including space launch operations, spacecraft re-entry and airspace integration, missile defense intercepts, mass ordnance storage, and energetic chemical and nuclear material processing. In addition, ACTA develops software tools that simulate physical behaviors in complex systems to manage risks in innovative ways.
The DoD IG reported the Army botched its program to modernize its fleet of H-60 Black Hawk helicopters, failing to provide adequate funding and training for pilots and not conducting required airframe condition evaluations on some 460 helicopters. Investments that pay 1,200 percent interest are unheard of, but the latest report to Congress from the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General claims that's the return to taxpayers as a result of its investigations, audits, and reviews.
The DoD was slow to use the cloud in the past, but it is now seeking innovative ways to bolster defense systems using AI, AR, Big Data and more. After cautiously approaching cloud computing in recent years due to serious concerns about security, the U.S. Department of Defense is now increasing its cloud spending and is planning to incorporate artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning and augmented reality into the nation's defense systems.
Honorably discharged veterans can now shop tax-free at the online military exchanges. The lifetime benefit is due to a change in Department of Defense policy.
For Department of Defense acquisitions, the Conference Report for Fiscal Year 2018 NDAA includes provisions that simplify and others that complicate contractor responsibilities. Proposed change to the definition of a "subcontractor" may result in fewer vendors being subject to mandatory flow-down clauses.
Sexual assault reporting rates at Fort Drum have zigzagged in recent years, according to new Department of Defense figures released Friday. According to military statistics, the post had 49 reports of sexual assault in fiscal year 2013, 79 in 2014, 49 in 2015 and 76 in 2016, for a total of 253 reports.
The Department of Defense's Twitter account on Thursday retweeted a call for President Donald Trump, as well as Senator Al Franken and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, to leave politics over sexual assault allegations-something the agency insisted was a mistake. The original tweet from the account @ProudResister said: "The solution is simplea Roy Moore: Step down from the race.
To achieve this budget, which is expected to sail through the Senate after the Thanksgiving break, Congress will have to raise the caps set into place during the Budget Control Act. But if there is a will - which there certainly is, considering the powerful defense industry lobby, coupled with members' own special interests for their districts - there is a way.
November 14/17: Milestone Boeing has announced that the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system now has 44 interceptors deployed at two sites on the continental United States. They added that the loading of the missile fulfils a US Department of Defense requirement of increasing the inventory to 44 by the end of 2017, but did not reveal to which site the milestone load took place.
Vocera Communications, Inc. , a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced it received a new Authority to Operate from the U.S. Department of Defense , based on compliance with strict security requirements and risk assessments outlined in the Risk Management Framework . The RMF is the unified information security framework replacing the legacy Certification and Accreditation processes within federal government departments and agencies, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community .
A Michigan woman's Facebook Live video is going viral, claiming the Department of Defense is conducting an electromagnetic pulse from November 4th-6th. The video, which has been viewed more than 5 million times and shared more than 84,000 times claims it will leave everyone with no power and no means of communication.
Several brokerages have updated their recommendations and price targets on shares of Leidos Holdings in the last few weeks: 10/25/2017 - Leidos Holdings was upgraded by analysts at Wells Fargo & Company from a "market perform" rating to an "outperform" rating. They now have a $69.00 price target on the stock.
AWS GovCloud is an isolated AWS region, subject to FedRAMP High and Moderate baselines, that allows customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and all types of regulated workloads. The region is operated by employees who are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.