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NASA’s Climate Adaptation Plan

NASA’s Climate Adaptation Plan

NASA’s policy requires the integration of climate considerations into its policies, strategies, and partner engagements. The agency commits to identifying and implementing adaptation strategies to prevent mission impacts from climate…

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Space Tracking and Surveillance System

Space Tracking and Surveillance System

The Missile Defense Agency operates the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), which consists of two satellites in low Earth orbit. These satellites, launched on September 25, 2009, detect visible…

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Sea-Based Weapon Systems/Aegis BMD

Sea-Based Weapon Systems/Aegis BMD

The Sea-Based Weapon Systems, also known as Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (Aegis BMD), is the integrated naval component within the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) providing critical regional and homeland defensive…

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Teleworking and Remote Schooling During the Pandemic

Teleworking and Remote Schooling During the...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in teleworking, with 46% of workers teleworking at least part-time during early 2021, compared to just over 10% before the pandemic. Although…

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Digital Transformation Smart Book

Digital Transformation Smart Book

Digital Transformation adds value for the warfighter and workforce by delivering successful acquisition outcomes. As a leadership and organizational priority, Digital Transformation leverages digital technologies to transform business processes, empower…

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2024 GPS Equipment Testing for Critical Infrastructure Live Sky Event

2024 GPS Equipment Testing for Critical...

In an ever-evolving landscape, multi-Positioning, Navigation, and Timing  (PNT) ecosystem attack surfaces are larger; the incorporation of PNT dependencies into future technologies are increasingly interdependent, and the scale of impacts…

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Army Modernization: Actions Needed to Support Fielding New Equipment

Army Modernization: Actions Needed to Support...

According to the 2021 Army Modernization Strategy, the Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model, will serve as the means to synchronize actions among key Army components to incorporate future capabilities…

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National Nuclear Security Administration: Actions Needed to Improve Integration of Production Modernization Programs and Projects

National Nuclear Security Administration: Actions...

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in its decades-long effort to modernize the facilities and infrastructure needed to produce the strategic materials and…

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Connected Communities Guidance: Zero Trust to Protect Interconnected Systems

Connected Communities Guidance: Zero Trust to...

Increasingly, localities in the United States are implementing smart, emerging, and connected technologies across critical infrastructure sectors, seeking cost-savings and enhanced quality-of-life for their citizens. These localities, otherwise known as…

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Sustaining the Transformation

Sustaining the Transformation

The Marine transformation is forever ingrained in their DNA in recruit training and Officer Candidates School and throughout the rest of their lives. The transformation to becoming a Marine is…

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Fire Science Exchange Network: Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Summary

Fire Science Exchange Network: Fiscal Year 2023...

The Fire Science Exchange Network is a science delivery organization made up of 15 regional fire science exchanges across the United States. Created in 2010, the exchanges provide relevant and…

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Understanding the Benefits

Understanding the Benefits

Social Security reaches almost every family and, at some point, touches the lives of nearly all Americans. The Social Security Administration (SSA) help older Americans, workers who develop disabilities and…

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Ten Steps of Resilient Power

Ten Steps of Resilient Power

The Ten Steps of Resilient Power (“Ten Steps”) recommend potential actions to implement the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Resilient Power Best Practices Fact Sheet (RPBP Fact Sheet). The RPBP…

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The Cost of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter

The Cost of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the Department of Homeland Security and transferred the Coast Guard from the Department of Transportation to the new department. The law listed 11…

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China’s Military Artificial Roadblocks

China’s Military Artificial Roadblocks

China has made significant investments, and apparent progress, in military artificial intelligence over the past several years. Given AI and related emerging technologies could play critical roles in future wars,…

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