As the military wrestles with some of its highest suicide rates on record, the Defense Department is undertaking a landmark look into mental health, suicide prevention and response.
In today's Federal Newscast: GSA attempts some creative inflation-slashing tricks for contractors. Internet crime was a growth industry in 2021. And the number of federal contractors is shrinking.
Security clearances, how to get them what you can do with them is an ever-changing topic. And the last couple of years have brought quite a few changes, especially since the machinery moved from the Office of Personnel Management to the Defense Department.
In today's Federal Newscast, House lawmakers are pressing the Federal Aviation Administration for more details on what it's doing to ensure the safety of the air transportation system as commercial companies roll out 5G wireless services.
The program focuses on balance as a way of determining health.
Defense Department components often give grants or contracts to colleges and universities, and companies for that matter, to do research. Now the Defense Office of Inspector General has found, research contractors don't do a good job of protecting that information from cyber attacks.
Omnibus bill adds more than $1 billion in facility upkeep funding, an area DoD has knowingly neglected in its budgets for at least a decade.
DoD's new JADC2 implementation plan is still classified, but signs of it will start to appear in the forthcoming 2023 budget proposal.