Defense News

• DoD using 14 entities as JEDI pathfinders as contract gets underway

  DoD will use U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Transportation Command to test its new cloud.

  Defense
  December 12, 2019
• A critical look at Army’s use of OTA for vehicle prototypes

  The Army is using other transaction authority to purchase prototypes of tactical vehicles that would be dropped from helicopters.

  Federal Drive
  December 12, 2019
• Federal employees score new shutdown protections, relocation tax relief with NDAA

  Twelve weeks of paid parental leave is the main attraction in the House-passed defense authorization bill, but it has a lot more for civilian federal employees.

  Workforce
  December 11, 2019
• Army Corps. engineering and construction chief wins Presidential Rank Award

  Christine Altendorf, the chief of Engineering and Construction for the Army Corps of Engineers, has won a Presidential Rank Award.

  Federal Drive
  December 11, 2019
• GAO: DoD can’t be sure which military installations lack sufficient water

  For a variety of reasons, many U.S. military installations are in danger of insufficient water.

  Federal Drive
  December 11, 2019
• Government accuses Amazon of violating transparency rules in its JEDI lawsuit

  Justice Department lawyers accuse Amazon of improperly redacting a “large quantity” of information from the publicly-released version of its JEDI lawsuit

  Defense
  December 11, 2019
• Final NDAA holds more than 50 provisions to fix military housing issues

  The bill creates a tenant bill of rights and makes it easier for DoD to punish housing contractors.

  Defense
  December 10, 2019
• Lawmakers unveil details of ‘historic’ federal paid parental leave benefits

  Federal employees will have up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth, adoption or foster of a new child starting in October 2020, if Congress passes and the president signs the annual defense policy bill into law.

  Workforce
  December 10, 2019
• Boeing says it wants to help DoD improve operations

  The Senior Manager for Government Analytics, Readiness and Integration, Vann Sample, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the the details.

  Federal Drive
  December 10, 2019
• OMB’s Cornelius to lead industry association

  Matthew Cornelius left the Office of Management and Budget after almost three years to become the executive director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI), an industry association, while USDA, OPM and the FCC gain new senior executives.

  Reporter's Notebook
  December 10, 2019