DFARS sets time DoD contractors have to request information release
Defense Department contractors must now submit requests to release fundamental research from a project 10 days before doing so, an addition to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement...
View ArticleNavy Secretary Mabus expects bribery scandal to widen
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Friday that he bluntly told criminal investigators to pursue a widening bribery scandal “wherever it leads” and that he expects more people to get swept up in a case that...
View ArticleNavy commander pleads guilty in huge bribery case
A U.S. Navy commander had plead guilty in a massive bribery scheme involving a longtime military contractor in Asia who allegedly offered luxury travel, prostitutes and other bribes to officers in...
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DARPA needs vendors cleared for classified research
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) works on technologies and ideas at the bleeding edge of research, most of which have at least some tangential military use. “Often, these...
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Judge denies bail for accused NSA leaker, citing security risk
A woman charged with leaking U.S. secrets must remain jailed until her trial, a federal judge ruled last Thursday, saying her release would pose an “ongoing risk to national security.” Reality Winner,...
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Massive classified NSA contract under protest
One of the National Security Agency’s most important technology contracts — secretly awarded to AT&T weeks ago — is under protest by one of the losing bidders, DXC Technology. The contract in...
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Former NSA contractor admits to stealing confidential documents
A former National Security Agency contractor at the center of one of several pending leak cases has pleaded guilty to one of 20 counts he faces for removing classified information from the agency and...
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How a Pentagon contract sparked a cloud war
Next month, the Defense Department is expected to bid out a lucrative contract that will task a single cloud provider with building the cloud the U.S. military will use for war. The Joint Enterprise...
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As secret Pentagon spending rises, Defense firms cash in
Classified spending has edged up faster than overall defense budget requests, and accounts for nearly 11 percent of the $716 billion proposed for 2020. The share of Pentagon spending hidden from public...
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Former Air Force contractor pleads guilty to illegally taking 2,500 pages of...
A former contractor with the U.S. Air Force recently pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio to illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents. Isaak...
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