Defense News

• New innovation awards get DoD, industry and academia in the same room

  The Defense Department is piloting new awards for basic research that pair universities with industry.

  Defense
  October 11, 2018
• After crash, Pentagon says temporary pause in F-35 flights

  The Pentagon has ordered a temporary pause in all F-35 fighter jet flights in order to inspect the fleet in the wake of a crash last month in South Carolina

  Defense
  October 11, 2018
• Army changing force structure, adding people for sustainment

  Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu spoke with Lt. Gen. Ed Daly, deputy commander of the materiel command, at this week’s Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington.

  Federal Drive
  October 11, 2018
• Army still working on nondeployability policy, could affect 62,000 soldiers

  The Army is still figuring out how to deal with soldiers who are nondeployable for a year or more.

  Army
  October 11, 2018
• Army plans new industry engagements to ‘digitize’ its bases

  Army says it wants industry ideas to build ‘installations of the future’ from monitoring energy usage, to family life on the base.

  Army
  October 11, 2018
• DoD and VA commit to one, interoperable Electronic Health Record

  In today’s Federal Newscast, the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs signed an official joint statement, containing provisions to hold both agencies accountable during the project.

  Federal Newscast
  October 11, 2018
• Court hears arguments in transgender military service ban

  Lawyers for President Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court in Portland to allow the administration to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the U.S. armed forces

  Defense
  October 11, 2018
• Feds warned to evacuate path of Tropical Storm Michael

  Federal employees and government facilities announced closures, emergency response procedures and evacuation notices before Hurricane Michael made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday.

  OPM
  October 10, 2018
• IBM to DoD: ‘No business in the world would build a cloud the way JEDI would’

  IBM said DoD is going against industry best practices by limiting competition with a single cloud environment under the $10 billion JEDI procurement.

  Contracts/Awards
  October 10, 2018