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The Defense Department needs fast, reliable, resilient satellite networking capabilities across the globe. It\'s wrestling with how to provide those capabilities in the face of dropping budgets.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said he will recommend to Congress that the chief of the National Guard bureau not become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He announced the decision ahead of expected Congressional testimony later this week so service members would hear it from him first, before hearing it on the news.
Air Force subtracts 9,000 managerial jobs, while adding 5,900 positions in areas it considers key to its mission.
More than 400 people must leave the Air Force by early 2012, as part of an initiative to trim the military branch\'s officer cadre. Air Force leaders are also targeting enlisted service members.
The Air Force, Navy and Lockheed Martin are pushing for training to begin on the new F-35 Joint Fight Strike Fighter, despite recommendations to postpone training by 10 months.
The companies must plead their case before the Air Force\'s debarring official. In the meantime, they cannot obtain new contracts or subcontracts.
The Air Force intends to migrate most of its localized and non-standardized IT networks into a single system known as AFNET by the end of next year. The migration should enable enterprise services across the Air Force, but who will host and operate those services over the long term remains undecided.
The Air Force wants to fulfill half of its U.S.-based jet fuel needs with alternative fuels by 2016 and expects to be ready for that target ahead of time. But, with the view that it is a consumer, not a producer of energy, the service says it doesn\'t intend to play a direct role in helping to develop biofuel technologies.
For a progress report on how the military is combating the cyber threat and a look at the near term future, officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force cyber commands joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris for a special Federal News Radio panel discussion.
Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.
Federal Times reports The scrap metal has been saved up for more than 15 years at Thule Air Base, Greenland.
Boeing has received a $12 billion dollar contract to keep the Defense Department\'s C-17 Globemaster transport planes flying
How does your agency compare to others when it comes to allowing employees to telework? The latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey gives some insight.
The goal is to transition the airspace back to Iraqi control before the last plane carrying Americans takes off.
Each week, Defense Reporter Jared Serbu speaks with the managers of the federal government's largest department. Subscribe on PodcastOne or Apple Podcasts.