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Plan outlines how joint forces will maintain their access to land, air, sea and cyber space.
President Barack Obama announced a slate of nominees for administration posts, including three in key Defense Department positions. They include nominees for the Pentagon\'s personnel and policy chiefs and the department\'s chief weapons buyer.
Both the Defense and Transportation Departments have asked the FCC to rescind its decision allowing a Virginia company to set up a national broadband network.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military is moving ahead with developing the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet, but warns the program is \"not out of the woods yet.\" Those remarks came as the F-35B Lightning II was removed from \"probation\" and granted full status along the other two variants of the Joint Strike Fighter. He said the F-35, the Pentagon\'s most expensive weapons program, is \"absolutely vital to maintaining America\'s air superiority\".
The Pentagon has been under pressure to spend less, and that urgency is growing, as the threat of automatic-cuts looms.
In next year\'s budget, key factors for program funding are performance, performance and performance, the Air Force\'s top acquisition official said.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering free credit monitoring for one year to more than 2,200 veterans after the agency mistakenly released personal information of those vets online.
Ray Bjorklund, vice president and chief knowledge officer at Deltek, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss DoD contract management.
Travis Sharp, a defense analyst at the Center for a New American Security, outlines three main areas where DoD could make cuts.
The Army uses the drones for warfighter training and unspecified \"domestic operations\" in civilian airspace.
The Defense Department’s chief information officer should have more power, according to the independent Defense Business Board. The group of private-sector executives say the agency’s CIO needs greater authority over their counterparts in the military,…
The Navy has signed a deal to start funneling green energy to its largest base. Instead of costing money, the project will save money, Navy and industry officials say.
The federal CIO said he\'s not concerned that the administration\'s cloud initiative will fall victim to the same types of roadblocks lawmakers set out for e-government seven years ago. VanRoekel said members of Congress need data on the value cloud computing brings. He also said vendor management organizations and mobile computing are among his short term priorities.
Belva Martin, the director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the agency\'s latest report on the use of the national-security exception in defense contracting. GAO concluded the Defense Department\'s rules for when its agencies must disclose the use of the exception are unclear.