Air Force
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The executive order President Donald Trump signed last week to ban certain types of diversity training carries enormous potential penalties for federal contractors. But at least for the time being, the vendor community appears to be holding its breath while it figures out exactly what the EO means.
September 28, 2020 -
The Air Force's top acquisition official said reforms that were initiated long before a pandemic was on the horizon went a long way toward dealing with the current emergency.
September 24, 2020 -
The Air Force and Space Force want all of the new systems they buy to be produced via digital engineering processes. But the defense industry needs to get on board first.
September 23, 2020 -
Like with telework, the Air Force may never go back to teaching the same way again.
September 22, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Nicholas Chaillan, The Air Force's Chief Software Officer, joins host John Gilroy to discuss Platform One and Cloud One, and why they are creative and innovative approaches to improving software for the service.
September 21, 2020 -
The White House says a new agency-level appeals process for clearance denials could expose classified information, increase processing time.
September 21, 2020 -
Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, the Air Force’s assistant deputy chief information officer for digital transformation, said Offutt Air Force Base and Buckley Air Force Base have received the go-ahead to go from a 10% capacity on their network-as-a-service up toward 100% capacity.
September 17, 2020 -
The Air Force is fully embracing telework, even after COVID goes away.
September 16, 2020 -
The Air Force revealed Tuesday that it has successfully flown the first airplane in its secretive Next Generation Air Dominance program. Perhaps more significantly, it's the first-ever fighter to be born almost entirely from digital engineering.
September 16, 2020 -
Air Force Materiel Command is looking at all of its position descriptions, written before COVID-19, to determine if they're more conducive to telework than originally thought.
August 31, 2020 -
Next week 2,400 members from the Air Force members will move to the new U.S. Space Force, the latest development in what have been a busy eight months to say the least.
August 27, 2020 -
The Air Force believes it's created a successful proof-of-concept that would let airmen access military networks via their own devices, and is ready to start large-scale testing.
August 27, 2020 -
Lt. Gen. David Thompson, the vice commander of the U.S. Space Force, said the service is creating a new training curriculum to make sure employees have a minimum set of digital skills.
August 21, 2020 -
DoD is experimenting with ways to improve autonomy in unmanned vehicles, and build trust in that autonomy between the platforms, their operators and the commanders that will deploy them.
August 19, 2020 -
The Dragon Innovation Program follows a trend of looking to soldiers for new ideas.
August 19, 2020
