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Commander Angela Francis is commanding officer of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to tell us more about her job.
GAO found DoD's Industrial Base Policy Office doesn't have a fully developed strategy to mitigate risks. Director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Bill Russell, joined the Federal Drive to explain.
The Small Business Administration is trying to address the 40% decline in the small business industrial base over the last decade with new initiatives.
The Army is reevaluating its end strength numbers because recruitment is so challenging.
The Defense Department has issued a request for information on a study of finance. Three years in development, the study is supposed to take a comprehensive look at financing and the financial health of the defense industrial base. Many contractors think the study is too narrow in scope.
This week the Federal Drive is exploring the activities under the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. For details about his work in Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Oceanography Antisubmarine Warfare Center's Commander Christopher Tuggle joined the program.
Large and heavy as they might be, the Navy's ships are affected by weather. Operations and planning depend on knowing what the weather will bring.
The Air Force's chief digital transformation officer says challenge events have shown what's possible when developers work with classified, operational data, but also how DoD's policies forbid those innovations in practice.
Naval Air Station Oceana hosted a graduation ceremony for eight interns who were part of Project SEARCH, a program connecting high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to internships and on-the-job training.
Each service has faced recruiting challenges in recent months, but the Army's is by far the largest.
Although DLA and SBA have worked together on similar NMR waivers for many years, we recognize that SBA has recently taken exception to how the program has been implemented.
The Air Force's deputy assistant secretary for Acquisition says the U.S.' “slow/micromanaged Cold War resource system" is the number one obstacle to competing and developing a military deterrent.
The four-star commanders of Naval Forces Europe-Africa, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and U.S. Pacific Fleet issued a joint directive on July 14 laying out steps all commanders should take to improve the timeliness and accuracy of sailors’ pay.
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