Air Force

The Air Force is preparing to invest in what it’s calling Digital U, an online schoolhouse similar to Udemy or Codecademy that will let airmen learn basic cyber skills.

The 2020 NDAA bars DoD from converting military medical billets to civilian ones until more analysis is done.

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Federal procurement lawyers say the first quarter of the federal fiscal year tends to be among the busiest times of the year as contractors challenge awards and solicitations that came during the previous fourth quarter.

For at least one side of the story, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Tully Rinckey attorney Larry Youngner.

The military services are getting fed up with housing contractors that are not cleaning up issues with service members’ homes.

Each of the military services significantly ramped up their use of direct hiring in 2019. The Air Force Sustainment Center, for instance, is using the authority to fill more than 70 percent of all job openings.

The Air Force is adding new allegations to its issues with private military housing contractor Balfour Beatty Communities.

Golden Horde, Navigation Technology Satellite-3 and Skyborg will be priorities in research funding.

The Air Force wants women to know they can get waivers if they are too short or tall to fly.

DoD and military housing companies promised to clean up their act, but some military families at Ft. Meade aren’t seeing the results.

While it pursues a digital, data-driven approach, the Air Force is still very much concerned with the physical world, including the materials that will be needed for aircraft of the future.

The Air Force says it wants to use the last expected bump in funding to build a digital Air Force.

The Second Generation Information Technology (2GIT) blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) includes five line items such as data center, end user and network products.