Army
-
Soldiers might be Army strong, but the same cannot necessarily be said about the buildings they work in. The service is facing a nearly eleven billion dollar tag to get its facilities and installations fixed. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione was joined by Randy Robinson, acting assistant secretary of the army for installations, energy and environment, and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham, assistant chief of staff for installations management, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the issue further.
May 17, 2017 -
Flashbacks can often be scarey, reminders of things we want to forget, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's recent visit to Fort Belvoir triggered a magic blast from the past.
May 12, 2017 -
Acting Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Zangardi said he is taking a "risk-aware" approach when it comes to meeting his priorities, some of which include improving effectiveness and efficiency, learning to "speak warfighter," and defining cyber responsibilities.
May 05, 2017 -
The Army's quick response acquisition shop is beginning to field technologies.
May 03, 2017 -
Women are now eligible to hold any position in the military. But that doesn’t mean everything is equal. Military women have been hosting so-called Lean In circles to discuss solutions to problems women face in the military and DoD workplace. Army Maj. Gen. Patricia Frost worked with Facebook executive and Lean In creator Sheryl Sandberg to bring more Lean In techniques to the military. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione spoke with Frost about her work on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 27, 2017 -
Army says commands have already issued several RFPs under new contract vehicle for cloud services, migration.
April 25, 2017 -
Fifteen organizations, both liberal and conservative, called on the White House to use a scalpel rather than a meat ax to cut DoD civilian employees.
April 24, 2017 -
You can't separate the Navy from the world's oceans. Almost since its founding, the Navy has maintained expertise in ocean science to help it perform its mission.
April 24, 2017 -
Alfred Rivera, DISA’s director of the Development and Business Center, said the agency is moving toward multi-factor authentication, including biometrics and other “patterns of life” type of technologies.
April 24, 2017 -
The Defense Department won't have any problems spending money if Congress can pass a budget next week.
April 21, 2017 -
The Army Reserve has taken on a much more important operational role in the last couple of decades. Now about 200,000 strong, it's about to celebrate another birthday. Participating in those celebrations will be Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Moeller. He's also the Army's non-commissioned officer of the year and he joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 21, 2017 -
The Army is in the midst of a sweeping review of its intelligence apparatus. Interviews and surveys are asking commanders at every level what they'll need from the intelligence corps over the next decade.
April 20, 2017 -
Facilities that house combat units are in bad condition and the funds are not there to fix them.
April 19, 2017 -
After years of work inventorying its legacy business information technology systems and building more modern ones to replace them, the Army says it has an aggressive plan in place to cut its number of business IT systems in half.
April 18, 2017 -
When the Army dropped a waste removal contractor for a base in Louisiana, it didn't plan on a protest from the good folks of Dripping Spring, Texas. But the incumbent contractor, located in that gateway to hill country, did in fact protest the new award, which went to the government of the parish in which Fort Polk is located. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details of this curious case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 13, 2017
