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By Natalie Alms   Kiran Ahuja from her days as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders President Joe Biden will nominate former Obama administration official Kiran Ahuja to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Ahuja led the Biden transition team on OPM and shes an agency veteran. She served as OPMs chief of staff 2015 to 2017. She also served as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific I...

Quick Hits *** The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security announced several senior appointments on Monday. Nitin Natarajan is the agencys new deputy director. Eric Goldstein will serve as CISAs executive assistant director for cybersecurity. Dr. David Mussington was tapped to serve as executive assistant director for infrastructure security. Goldstein was a member of the agency review team that managed the CISA transition for the Biden admini...

SES beams high-throughput loopback services to US DoD Government solutions division of Luxembourg-based satellite operator uses O3b medium earth orbit constellation to deliver mission-critical communications to the edge in Asia Share this item with your network: By Published: 22 Feb 2021 17:01 As part of its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the US government agency for medium earth orbit (MEO) low-latency, high-throughput satellite (HTS) services, SES Government Solutions (SES GS) has...

Defense industry experts call on lawmakers to push for procurement protest reforms to enhance national security.

By Natalie Alms   Everett Kelley receives an award at the annual National Action Network Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, Jan. 2019. (Photo courtesy: AFGE) The largest federal employee union is pressing for some legislative wins with Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and in control of the White House. The top priority is ensuring safe working conditions during the pandemic and the provision of COVID-19 paid sick leave benefits for feds, said American Federation of Government ...

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A release from the Department of Defense states the evaluation begins February of 2021. The point of this evaluation is to review the basis for selecting Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal as the permanent location of the Space Command headquarters.

DoD announces investigation into Space Command move United State Space Command and last updated 2021-02-19 23:15:07-05 WASHINGTON D.C. — The Department of Defense inspector general has announced plans to investigate the decision to move the home of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama. In a memorandum sent to the Secretary of the Air Force, the inspector general said the objective of the investigation is to "review the basis for selecting Huntsville, Alabama, as...

Accelerating Organization wide Cloud Computing By Greg Gardner, Chief Architect, Government and Defense Solutions, NetApp - The Dept. of Defense (DoD) and the Aerospace and Defense Industry–two entities heavily reliant on...

Quick Hits *** The General Services Administrationannounced on Thursday that it was rolling out identify proofing via its Login.gov shared services program to "a limited number" of federally financed state and local government programs. GSAs Technology Transformation Services :will limit engagements with state and local entities to work that is linked to federal programs in which TTS is uniquely positioned to provide assistance" and will "partner with applicable federal agencies to ensure prop...