Army
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For many years, researchers at the Army Institute of Surgical Research have concentrated on what they call compensatory reserve. That is, how much blood loss can a person sustain and the body still compensate. Dr. Victor Convertino, senior scientist at the Institute, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Army, in concert with the FDA, has developed a new device that can help prevent battlefield deaths.
March 07, 2017 -
The Army put out a request for information (RFI) looking for vendors who could provide services to find, monitor and remove impostor social media accounts.
March 06, 2017 -
Discharge Review Boards rarely grant veterans personal testimony and are having trouble providing video conferences.
March 02, 2017 -
The Defense Department will move nearly a quarter of a million workers to the New Beginnings system in April.
February 20, 2017 -
Problems transferring licenses from military to civilian world or from one state to another are starting to get attention in Congress.
February 17, 2017 -
The Army is required to provide Intel and weather information to soldiers in the field. The military branch opted to solicit for a development contract instead of diving into commercial software to complete the task. What happened next might be surprising, and Joe Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to provide some context.
February 16, 2017 -
Army Cyber Command is starting two pilots aimed at bringing in more tech savvy soldiers.
February 09, 2017 -
The General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) released a draft solicitation asking for industry input in creating a bug bounty program.
February 06, 2017 -
Defense Secretary James Mattis laid out plans for the next six years in a Feb. 1 memo.
February 01, 2017 -
In November, when Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel records were vulnerable to theft by hackers via the…
February 01, 2017 -
Although the governmentwide hiring freeze President Donald Trump ordered last week was mainly meant to shrink the federal workforce through gradual, voluntary attrition, it could result in an untold number of unexpected dismissals for Defense workers in charge of repairing and "resetting" military equipment.
February 01, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office stated the two services did not implement human capital strategies that could have helped alleviate the drone pilot short fall.
January 31, 2017 -
When Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel records were vulnerable to theft by hackers via the Army’s public-facing websites. As it turns out, the answer was yes.
January 24, 2017 -
Army Undersecretary Patrick Murphy says he hopes the Army continues its pushes in innovation and acquisition.
January 20, 2017 -
Col. Walter Herd, director of the Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Program, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss how his organization helps transitioning Army soldiers prepare for civilian careers. January 20, 2017
January 12, 2017
