The Pentagon is moving to a screening and diagnostic approach for coronavirus.
New benefits and programs from the military seem to be helping troops and their families.
OMB released much-anticipated guidance giving agencies important direction for how they should implement the provision in the stimulus bill that lets agencies pay contractors to keep them in a state of ready.
Essye Miller, the Defense Department’s principal deputy chief information officer, is retiring in June after 35 years of federal service. She will be replaced by John Sherman, who will come over from being the IC CIO since 2017.
Updated order adds exceptions for overseas deployments and recruiting, while extending ban on most other travel through June 30.
The Pentagon says major acquisition programs will be set back by three months.
It’s been several years since budget challenges caused federal agencies to offer widespread buyouts and early-outs to their workforces, but the Defense Contract Management Agency is finding itself in that position now.
Defense officials say the new restrictions, though longer, will allow for more liberal exceptions. But they released few details on what those exceptions would be.