Defense News
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Yvette Bourcicot, the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, said with 500 occupations separated into 11 career fields, the service is reimagining how it attracts, retains and develops civilian employees.
January 19, 2024 -
DoD’s space office is “assigning minimum classifications to a various number of things,” which will allow the services to take a look at their space programs and decide if some information can be made available to lower classification levels.
January 19, 2024 -
MaryKathryn Robinson, the director for contract policy in the Office of Defense Pricing and Contracting, said in 2022 92% of the OTAs were awarded to those OTA contractors or performers that had a non-traditional defense contractor performer.
January 18, 2024 -
Several years in, and still no national guard component for the Space Force. What Space Force got in the most recent Defense Authorization bill is a feasibility study. For what that means, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Brig. Gen. Michael Bruno from the Colorado National Guard.
January 18, 2024 -
The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption says that Congress and DoD are making progress on its recommendations but acknowledges that "broader, strategic matters” will take some time to reach full implementation.
January 17, 2024 -
The latest must-read, issued by the Pentagon last week, is the first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy. It acknowledges that America's manufacturing might isn't what it used to be. And that it's not really up to the task of supporting great powers competition.
January 16, 2024 -
DoD's overhaul of its system to move servicemembers' goods from place to place was supposed to have been implemented by now. But so far, no major moving companies have signed up.
January 16, 2024 -
The service is currently selecting specific programs to be the first ones to implement the unified data reference architecture.
January 16, 2024
