Air Force
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The budget deal cuts $250 million in civilian headquarters and mandates a report from the inspector general.
January 06, 2016 -
This week, Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talked with Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James.
January 06, 2016 -
An old quip about the Defense Department is that the Navy, Army and Marines all have their own air force. Throw in the Air Force itself and you've got a lot of flying assets. Yet DoD can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it. The Rand Corporation looked into this and came up with some recommendations for an activity that costs billions every year. Michael Boito, senior cost analyst at Rand, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
January 06, 2016 -
The Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron spends its summer and fall flying into hurricanes. In the winter season, it flies around blizzards to measure wind speed and trajectory. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione caught up with the squadron’s Chief Meteorologist Lt. Col. Jon Talbot to find how just how they do it and shared that report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 04, 2016 -
The Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are preparing for their winter mission of tracking winter storms to provide data to the National Weather Service.
December 23, 2015 -
The number-two civilian jobs in all three military departments are vacant for the moment. But the Senate could vote as soon as next month to confirm new undersecretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, the nominees say their top priorities will be restoring military readiness and shrinking their departments’ headquarters staffs.
December 22, 2015 -
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
December 22, 2015 -
Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall is the Air Force's assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. She's one of the most senior female officers in the U.S military and throughout her career, she's been the first woman in most of the jobs she held as she rose though the ranks of the Air Force. But Urrutia-Varhall said that particular distinction wasn't something she paid much attention to over the last 30 years. In a recent appearance on Federal News Radio’s Women of Washington, Urritia-Varhall talked about her career and why many women in the military opt-out of career paths that could lead to high-ranking jobs like the one she holds now.
December 16, 2015 -
The Air Force's personnel experts team up with cyber pros to fix downtime on the service's HR systems, which have serious domino effects each time there's an outage.
December 14, 2015 -
The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding hearings on less prominent Defense officials after a long stalemate over a congressional rule change.
December 10, 2015 -
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
December 07, 2015 -
The Air Force's outgoing acquisition chief says there is a lack of incentives for making program schedules faster.
November 25, 2015 -
The Air Force’s Air Mobility Command stumbled onto some surprising findings when using big data to save on fuel costs.
November 19, 2015 -
Northrop Grumman is celebrating a huge win in the Long Range Strike Bomber competition and Boeing is considering a protest of the final decision. Jim Hasik, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told In Depth with Francis Rose there are still a lot of questions to answer about how much the planes will cost and how fast the Air Force really needs them.
November 04, 2015 -
The Air Force is working on a rapid acquisition model that will be more conducive to open architectures.
November 04, 2015
