Navy

The top officials from each branch want hospitals and clinics back under their control.

Photos of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things happening in the defense community.

The Navy is seeking help from industry to improve the cybersecurity of ship-board networks.

Twenty-one people have suffered minor injuries in an explosion and fire Sunday on board a ship at Naval Base San Diego.

The germ that’s wrecked havoc on public health and the economy has also stuck a spear into national security. The U.S.S. Roosevelt episode showed that.

Mike Sydla, the division director for Information Management Resources Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations at Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, said keeping everything moving has meant embracing a new mindset but also keeping some workers in shipyards to continue fleet work.

A $5 billion overhaul of one of the Navy’s aircraft carriers is going better than anyone expected thanks to the (relatively) young assistant program manager leading the project.

The department created the data management position within the office of the Chief Management Officer in 2018. But as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress moved the CDO job to the CIO’s office.

The Navy has upheld the firing of the aircraft carrier captain who urged faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak

The bid protest decision is the second time in as many weeks that GAO has ruled in favor of the Navy in the recompetition of its massive NGEN contract.

Lawmakers chided the services for not addressing the issue sooner.

The Government Accountability Office ruled against GDIT in its protest of the $7.7 billion award to Leidos. A separate protest, filed by Perspecta, is due to be settled by next week.

The Government Accountability Office’s latest report on government waste on overlapping and duplicative programs was just released. Jessica Lucas-Judy, the GAO’s director for strategic issues, detailed the latest report’s findings on an episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Braithwaite is the first Senate-confirmed Navy secretary since last November, when the Trump Administration fired Richard Spencer.