Defense News

• Army completes 300th Sustainment Brigade Run

  Photos of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things happening in the defense community.

  Defense
  January 18, 2019
• Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

  For going on 20 years, Congress and the public have read with a mixture of horror and fascination the reports coming out of the inspectors general, first for Iraq and then for Afghanistan reconstruction.

  Federal Drive
  January 17, 2019
• Readiness is nearly restored, top military officials say

  After years of uncertain budgets and constant war, the military services say they are near adaquate readiness levels.

  Defense News
  January 16, 2019
• 5 ‘bold’ recommendations to improve DoD acquisition

  Federal News Network details five of the Section 809 panel’s third and final set of recommendations that readers should pay close attention to over the next year.

  Acquisition
  January 16, 2019
• GSA, White House must improve security of federal facilities

  The General Services Administration approves the technologies and the vendors and the White House sets the parameters for the security of federal facilities. But GAO says upgrades aren’t happening quickly enough.

  Agency Oversight
  January 16, 2019
• Senator wants update on furloughed feds’ health coverage

  In today’s Federal Newscast, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is asking the Office of Personnel Management how it’s making sure federal employees furloughed due to the government shutdown are still receiving healthcare coverage.

  Federal Newscast
  January 16, 2019
• Section 809 panel’s final report prescribes ‘revolutionary’ changes to DoD buying

  Section 809 panel delivers 2,000 pages of proposed fixes to DoD acquisition, including a sweeping overhaul of how the Pentagon buys commercially-available goods and services.

  Acquisition Policy
  January 15, 2019
• TSA bringing some financial relief to unpaid screeners during shutdown

  In today’s Federal Newscast, along with bonuses, the Transportation Security Administration said it can legally pay employees who worked the first day of the shutdown.

  Federal Newscast
  January 15, 2019
• DoD blended retirement now has more than half a million enrollees

  Two weeks after the cut off, DoD now says more than 400,000 service members signed up for the blended retirement system (BRS) and 150,000 new service members were automatically enrolled in the program.

  Defense
  January 14, 2019