Air Force
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Officials said Friday that DoD’s newest combatant command will stay at its temporary home in Colorado Springs for the next six years; it’s expected to take about that long for a new basing decision to be made and new facilities to be built.
May 18, 2020 -
Coronavirus pushed Air Force to move industry engagements online. Officials wish it had been sooner.The Air Force's top acquisition official says his service has seen so much success with virtual events that it's never going back to in-person-only industry engagements.
May 15, 2020 -
The Air Force adapted its survival training to COVID-19 and it likes the results.
May 13, 2020 -
An independent assessment by the Defense Business Board found DoD's chief management officer is “nearly unanimously” viewed as ineffective — partly because the CMO was never set up for success.
May 11, 2020 -
Bill Marion, who left federal service after 28 years including the last four years as the deputy chief information officer of the Air Force, said the next deputy CIO will have a long list of priorities including continuing network modernization, transforming risk management and ensuring the service has a digital workforce.
May 04, 2020 -
Small defense businesses are laying off employees, but they may have an opportunity to grow with DoD.
April 28, 2020 -
The General Services Administration’s inspector general reviewed new schedule contracts or those being renewed over a three-year period and found the agency may not be getting the price discounts that the government should expect.
April 28, 2020 -
U.S. Forces Korea has banned several non-uniformed personnel from its bases for the next two years for violating the command's health protection orders.
April 27, 2020 -
Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein has told his service to prepare for a "new abnormal." He wants the service to be able to conduct its missions even with the possibility that 20 percent of the force will be infected with coronavirus until a vaccine is found.
April 23, 2020 -
The Navy is trying to work with its industrial base and learn lessons from the crisis.
April 17, 2020 -
The Air Force is worried about its aerospace and space business partners.
April 16, 2020 -
CenturyLink, Verizon and Granite Telecommunications submitted protests to the Government Accountability Office over task orders under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program.
April 16, 2020 -
In the span of just a few weeks, the military services have achieved five-to-tenfold increases in the number of users who can connect to their networks from home.
April 14, 2020 -
Sarkis Tatigian joined the Navy in 1942. He’s been there ever since, until his death this week at the age of 96. Read about him and other Defense news in this week's DoD Reporter's Notebook.
April 08, 2020 -
The order has left some troops homeless and others paying two rents.
April 07, 2020
