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The Defense Department has been trying for years to find a personnel system that's effective for the vast variety of civilians it employs. Some have been tried and discarded. People notice. Some write about it. Rob Albritton worked both in uniform and as a civilian for the Air Force. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked him about his War on the Rocks blog posting, with four suggestions for the personnel system and whether the system is broken.
The Pentagon's operational testing and evaluation office says "red teams" are spread too thin to test DoD networks against real-world threats.
A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that those injured before 2007 during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are most at risk for chronic problems from traumatic brain injury.
The Air Force was an early adopter of a online concept: A self-service personnel portal for its service members. But that system, called MyPers, was getting a little long in tooth. It's been undergoing a thorough update. Air Force CIO Bill Marion told Federal Drive with Tom Temin why the system is so important and what's they're doing.
The National Security Agency has retained almost 97 percent of its employees in 2015.
NSA's Debora Plunkett has retired after 31 years in government, working in cybersecurity and diversity.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wants to know why the Navy has allowed its top intelligence officer to stay on the job for more than two years while his security clearance has been suspended.
Defense analysts think the National Commission on the Future of the Army could have been bolder in its recommendations.
A successful transition to the administration's new federal security clearance program will take the right technology, timing and leadership, former federal intelligence community experts said.
The second round of DoD's Force of the Future initiative focuses on military families. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the reforms would improve the military's ability to retain its best people.
The National Commission on the Future of the Army suggested keeping the active duty Army size minimum at 450,000 and increasing multi-component integration.
DoD says it wants public-private partnerships to form the basis of future space launches. But current congressional mandates are narrowly focused on breaking the decades-old habit of using Russian rocket engines.
The Air Force's modernization plans account for a large part of the Defense Department's overall spending to bring weapon systems up to date over the next decade, according to a new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
'Midshippie' does have a hip sort of ring, can be spoken or sung, and it would sound perfect if shouted out by a drill instructor at a cadet (cadette?).