Army

  • The soft patrol cap will replace the black beret, at least for wear with the Army combat uniform, and some insignia will be sewn, losing the Velcro, the Army announced Saturday.

    June 13, 2011
  • GAO\'s Sharon Pickup explains how the Army and Marine Corps are working together and how your agency can work with other agencies to achieve a common goal.

    June 01, 2011
  • Malcolm O\'Neill, the Army\'s assistant secretary for acquisitions, logistics and technology will resign his post for personal reasons, he told colleagues in an email Tuesday.

    June 01, 2011
  • The task order was awarded under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 Services indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command - National Capital Region.

    May 25, 2011
  • The service wants to put certain software and hardware in a real-world environment to see how it would perform in conditions similar to those in combat. The process also will influence how the Army buys technology in the future.

    May 23, 2011
  • The Secretary of the Army said Wednesday that the service agreed with most of the recommendations of a blue ribbon panel on reforming its acquisition process. Secretary John McHugh told Congress the Army was moving forward with 63 of the 76 recommendations.

    May 19, 2011
  • Agencies asked 125 annuitants for help last year with Army leading the way, bringing 44 retired federal workers back to help with acquisition processes.

    May 19, 2011
  • Because of mandates requiring new DoD buildings to meet minimum requirements for environmental design, tens of thousands of Defense employees are making moves from older, energy inefficient buildings into greener ones.

    May 13, 2011
  • In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, \"By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?\"

    May 10, 2011
  • Moving into a new building has allowed DISA to revamp its technology infrastructure, including consolidating circuits, servers and paper records. The Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical is building a new network to carry health data and applications for three services to share. Both organizations say without BRAC, these changes would have taken longer to happen.

    May 10, 2011
  • Federal News Radio has compiled a list of important links and resources on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure.

    May 09, 2011
  • A House committee cut funding for the project in the 2012 budget by 98 percent.

    May 05, 2011
  • Just how many Defense Department employees will eventually be using a cloud-based e-mail service depends who you ask. Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s vice director, told reporters Tuesday, selling the Navy and Air Force on its cloud-based email system is a matter of when, not if. However, Hawkins admits, “If you [...]

    May 05, 2011
  • The Army is set to show off a new ammunition with improved accuracy and higher velocity, improved hard target capability, more consistent soft target performance, and a significantly increased range of these effects.

    May 04, 2011
  • The Army is moving its email to the Defense Information Systems Agency\'s cloud. DISA\'s vice chief told reporters Tuesday that getting the rest of the military services on board was a question of when, not if.

    May 04, 2011