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SOUTH PACIFIC (July 9, 2017) Operations Specialist 1st Class Charles Hammond, from Kansas City, Missouri, monitors tracks aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) during an air defense exercise comprised of Sterett, amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20), amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155), Royal Australian Navy guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), and Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156) as part of Talisman Saber 17. Sterett, part of a combined U.S.-Australia-New Zealand expeditionary strike group (ESG), is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase proficiencies defending the ESG against blue-water threats so amphibious forces can launch Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Byron C. Linder/Released)170709-N-ZW825-895

Navy seeing ‘explosion’ in use of OTA for IT, cyber development work

The Navy was a relative latecomer to other transaction agreements, but the service’s usage of OTAs in the IT space has surged, and the service is moving…

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DoD’s Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be

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Army cutting costs by sharing services with local communities

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Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

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Unresolved IG recommendations piling up at DoD

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DoD CMO gains new cachet as ‘secretary of the fourth estate’

DoD’s chief management officer has found $11 billion in cost reductions this year, but the office’s continued existence is in doubt.

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Pentagon IG offers advice for effective contracting during pandemic

Although the Defense contracting community has never dealt with a situation quite like the current pandemic, the Pentagon’s IG says there are enough lessons…

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Navy hopes new NGEN contract will lead to ‘domain singularity’

Twenty years after the inception of NMCI, the Navy’s networks still aren’t unified and have a very hard time dealing with cloud services. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as something of a wake-up call to help fix that.

DoD presses its supercomputers into service for COVID-19 fight

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Pentagon releases last of four solicitations to test 5G technologies

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More than 180 military medical students graduate early to help with COVID-19 crisis

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Navy reforming its IT security processes to approve new systems in a day

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FILE - This Jan. 25, 2019 file photo shows a drone from the New York State Fire Agency to help track a cruise ship that broke from its moorings and became lodged against a bridge in Albany, N.Y. In Utah, drones are hovering near avalanches to measure roaring snow. In North Carolina, they're combing the skies for the nests of endangered birds. In Kansas, meanwhile, they could soon be identifying sick cows through heat signatures. A survey released Monday, May 20, 2019 shows transportation agencies are using drones in nearly every U.S. state. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

DIU picks 5 commercial companies to help military deal with threat from small drones

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Second year of audits shows DoD getting better grasp of business processes

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FILE - In this Jan.23 2018 file photo, a French solider watches code lines on his computer at the French Defense ministry stand during the International Cybersecurity forum in Lille, northern France. Police in Europe and North America have seized servers and data from Islamic State propaganda outlets in a multi-country operation aimed at tracking down radicals and crimping the group's ability to spread its violent message. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

Army’s Project Sentinel aims to fix cyber authorization bottlenecks

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FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon says the U.S. will send several dozen fighter jets along with other aircraft and additional air defenses to Saudi Arabia to help protect the kingdom from Iranian attacks. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Army nearing final design decisions under new battlefield networking strategy

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Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division confirm the zero on their M4A1 carbines during advanced rifle marksmanship training on a range near Smardan, Romania, June 5, 2019. Advanced marksmanship training helps prepare the Soldiers of the 1-16th Infantry to be a lethal asset to NATO allies in support of Atlantic Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremiah Woods)

With new ad campaign, Army wants to highlight its ‘breadth and depth’

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Army’s forthcoming data strategy comes with new standards, ‘ruthless’ enforcement

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Navy building more ‘strategic’ relationships with its key suppliers

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EXCLUSIVE: Air Force touts new digital plan to transform all aspects of the service

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