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July 19, 2016 By AMK

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 projects are classified and can only be solicited from a limited number of sources,” according to a July 11 request for information issued by the agency.

“DARPA must maintain up-to-date knowledge about potential performers to maximize the number of sources that can be solicited for classified, highly specialized, [cyberspace operations] R&D initiatives.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/cybersecurity/2016/07/11/darpa-vendor-clearance/86947934/

January 20, 2015 By AMK

Navy 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 exchange for confidential information.

Jose Luis Sanchez, 42, is the highest-ranking official to plead guilty in the case, which rocked the Navy when the first charges were filed in 2013. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced March 27 for bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery.

Sanchez admitted taking bribes valued between $30,000 and $120,000 from 2009 to 2013, including a prostitute, $7,500 to travel from Asia to the United States and five days at Singapore’s luxury Shangri-La Hotel, according to a 24-page plea agreement. In exchange, he provided classified Navy ship and submarine schedules and other internal information to Leonard Glenn Francis, chief executive of a Singapore-based company that provided services to vessels at ports.

Keep reading this article at: http://hamptonroads.com/2015/01/us-navy-commander-pleads-guilty-massive-bribery-case

December 27, 2013 By AMK

Navy 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 has already tarred several senior officers and exposed an international, multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.

“I certainly don’t think we’ve seen the end of it,” Mabus told reporters at the Pentagon in his first public comments on the scandal since it came to light in September. “I would rather get bad headlines than let bad people get away.”

Mabus, the Navy’s top civilian official since 2009, spoke a day after he held an unusual video conference with the Navy’s fleet commanders and other admirals around the world to emphasize the need to uphold ethical standards and prevent contracting fraud. With the scandal showing no sign of abating, he also has ordered several reviews and an audit into how the Navy pays for port services.

The Navy has been tarnished by a succession of embarrassing revelations over the past three months about its relationship with a major foreign defense contractor, Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia, that has provided port services to U.S. ships and submarines in the Pacific for a quarter-century.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/navy-secretary-mabus-expects-bribery-scandal-to-widen/2013/12/20/c85f8ece-6990-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html

August 28, 2013 By AMK

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 (DFARS) says.

The DFARS says a DoD contractor can’t release to anyone outside its own organization any unclassified information pertaining to the contract or the program related to the contract unless the information was already in the public domain or a request for approval is granted. Requests for approval should identify the specific DoD information to be released, the medium to be used and the purpose for the release.

The change regarding fundamental research was previously published as part of a proposed rule proposed in 2011 having to with safeguarding unclassified DoD Information. Under the previously proposed rule, contractors would have had 45 days to submit the request before the information is to be released.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/rule-change-reduces-time-dod-contractors-have-request-information-release/2013-08-12

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.

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