Navy
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The USS Ponce — a 41-year-old warship — will serve as a base for commandos operating in the region.
February 01, 2012 -
The Navy has signed a deal to start funneling green energy to its largest base. Instead of costing money, the project will save money, Navy and industry officials say.
January 20, 2012 -
The Navy\'s Pacific Fleet is getting a new commander. Adm. Patrick Walsh will retire this Friday after 34 years of service to the Navy. Adm. Cecil Haney, the former deputy of the U.S. Strategic Command, will take over.
January 18, 2012 -
John Streufert will become the new director of the National Cybersecurity Division. He comes to DHS after spending more than five years as the State Department\'s chief information security officer. Additionally, Rear Adm. Michael Brown retires today.
January 13, 2012 -
The Defense Department\'s Combat Feeding Directorate oversees the nutritional requirements and changing tastes of America\'s fighting force when designing its MREs, or meals ready-to-eat.
December 29, 2011 -
Asif Khan joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss a recent GAO report examining those services\' financial-management issues.
December 22, 2011 -
Bruce Blank, the energy director of the DLA\'s bulk petroleum business unit, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the procurement process of a new biofuel contract with the Navy.
December 21, 2011 -
Cmdr. Dianna Wolfson is the project superintendent at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for the USS Newport News Engineered Overhaul, describes tool sharing program that saves time and money.
December 16, 2011 -
The Navy is taking a different look at curing post-traumatic stress disorder. A doctor says he has developed an injection for the neck that can cure PTSD, Wired reports. Capt. Anita Hickey, the director of Integrative Pain Medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego has received $100,000 to test Dr. Lipov\'s method.
December 13, 2011 -
The service will reissue two major pieces of the draft RFP for comment. The Navy said it will not release the final RFP before the end of January.
December 09, 2011 -
Terry Halvorsen, the chief information officer at the Navy, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the Navy\'s efforts to attract small-business IT contractors.
December 09, 2011 -
The faceoff between the Navy Midshipmen and the Army Black Knights is almost here, and the pre-game anticipation has already spread to Twitter.
December 09, 2011 -
Rear Adm. Phillip Cullom joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the new step in the Navy\'s green energy efforts at sea.
December 08, 2011 -
After the passage of the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Pentagon stopped fighting the Congressional push for the military services to come together. Instead, it innovated joint operations beyond the wildest hopes of reformers in Congress. Can that model be exported to the rest of the federal government?
December 08, 2011 -
It took more than four years, but Congress succeeded in revamping the organizational structure of the Pentagon over the strident objections of the military\'s own leadership 25 years ago.
December 07, 2011
