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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.
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.
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
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.
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.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding hearings on less prominent Defense officials after a long stalemate over a congressional rule change.
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.
The Air Force's outgoing acquisition chief says there is a lack of incentives for making program schedules faster.
The Air Force’s Air Mobility Command stumbled onto some surprising findings when using big data to save on fuel costs.
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.
The Air Force is working on a rapid acquisition model that will be more conducive to open architectures.
Congress decided yesterday what programs will get a haircut in freeing up $5 billion in defense spending. Among the programs is the Long Range Strike Bomber and defense readiness increases.
Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.
The 9-year struggle to fill federal jobs in North Dakota's oil-boom towns offers a stark example to the rest of the government of just how hard it can be to keep federal workers when private employers beckon.
Each week, Defense Reporter Jared Serbu speaks with the managers of the federal government's largest department. Subscribe on PodcastOne or Apple Podcasts.