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Federal agencies and contractors are doing more to avoid using the suspension and debarment process.

Hearing loss is the most common disability from military service and treating it is expensive, but newly designed custom earplugs are providing some relief.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.) said he is on a “journey” to make sure federal agencies don’t abuse federal travel plans.

Artificial intelligence is at the top of the Navy’s list of new technologies that it wants to get involved with.

A team working for the Office of Naval Research has found a way to give neoprene wetsuits insulating power nearly equal to the fat on a seal.

Anthony Smith, director of the Department of the Navy’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institution (HBCU/MI) program., joins host Derrick Dortch on this week’s Fed Access to discuss how the program is helping the Navy increase and diversify its pool of researchers and analysts.

ONR is following the trend of doing things just like Silicon Valley.

For the Navy, much of the innovation has come from the Office of Naval Research. Now the ONR is starting to use so-called lean innovation process.

The Navy is developing a new framework that will determine how it administers its technology development process. The goal, the chief of Naval research tells Federal News Radio, is to “impedance match” each stage of the acquisition system with the pace of technology.

When Rear Adm. Matt Winter, outgoing Chief of Naval Research, looks back on his career at the Office of Naval Research, the thing he is most proud of isn’t a new technology or capability. It’s…