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Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talk to retired Rear Adm. Janice Hamby, chancellor of the National Defense University, about women in leadership.
Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall is the Air Force's assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. She's one of the most senior female officers in the U.S military and throughout her career, she's been the first woman in most of the jobs she held as she rose though the ranks of the Air Force. But Urrutia-Varhall said that particular distinction wasn't something she paid much attention to over the last 30 years. In a recent appearance on Federal News Radio’s Women of Washington, Urritia-Varhall talked about her career and why many women in the military opt-out of career paths that could lead to high-ranking jobs like the one she holds now.
The Air Force's personnel experts team up with cyber pros to fix downtime on the service's HR systems, which have serious domino effects each time there's an outage.
One of DoD's top cloud officials said companies should expect proposal requests from the Pentagon soon to host cloud centers on department property.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding hearings on less prominent Defense officials after a long stalemate over a congressional rule change.
Based on the work of two study groups, the Pentagon is likely to ask Congress to revise two key statutes underlying its personnel management system for military officers: the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act.
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
A newly-disclosed report makes clear that security managers at the Washington Navy Yard had tried to point out at least some security deficiencies well in advance of the September 2013 shootings.
Speed matters, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates stomped and hollered when MRAPs weren't there during the height of the Iraq war, by golly, DoD found a contractor to build them in march time.
The Army says its nascent electronic warfare program has plenty of people. Now it needs to train and equip them to do their jobs. But as Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, those parts are coming soon.
The Army's top electronic warfare officer says the service has done a good job of rebuilding its personnel following 20 years in which the Army had no meaningful EW program, but still lags in training and tools.
Anthony Kurta, deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy, said the Defense Department is beginning to overcome institutional barriers to change as it implements initial reforms in Secretary Ash Carter's "Force of the Future" plan.
The Army is evaluating five years of data to study suicide. The data is both affirming and in some cases disproving what the Army knows about its suicide-prone soldiers. Randy Lane is the division chief of the analytics assessment and systems division at the Army Resilience Directorate. Wendy Lasko is the program manager of the Army Suicide Prevention Program, and Kenneth Cox is the scientific liasion for the Army STARRS program. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they tell Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko about the data points they collected. The first voice you hear is Lane's.
Predictive analytics are changing the way the Army thinks about its training and programs to combat suicide — and other adverse factors that might impact a soldier's readiness. The service wrapped up a five-year study, called Army STARRS, this past summer.
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