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Under a yearlong continuing resolution, the Air Force will have to cancel 34 construction projects and the Space Force will lose $2.6 billion in research dollars.
You may not wake up thinking about Cislunar-space situational awareness, but people at the Air Force Research Laboratories. In fact, AFRL has had two programs for such awareness. Two programs they have brought together. The resulting program is called the Oracle family of systems.
In today's Federal Newscast: The undersecretary of the Air Force said the failure to pass all 12 regular appropriations will have catastrophic effects on the DoD. Feds, who relocate for work, may soon have better coverage of their moving expenses. And National Institutes of Health's governmentwide acquisition contract, adds to its record-breaking number of bid protests.
DoD’s new guidance clarifies what FedRAMP equivalency means and requires cloud service providers handling controlled unclassified information to get a letter of attestation from a third-party organization that says they meet the FedRAMP Moderate baseline standards without plans of action and milestones.
TMF has a new acting leader, a long-time Senate staffer heads to the White House cyber office, and three federal acquisition and IT leaders head out the door.
In today's Federal Newscast: The SEC has figured out how its official X account was hacked. The Technology Modernization Fund program management office has new temporary leadership. And the U.S. Navy gives birth to a new pregnancy policy.
An organization that supports active duty service members has launched an initiative to make it easier when changing duty stations. The Military Family Advisory Network has partnered with some large retailers to give families a little something when they arrive at the new location.
Armies in other parts of the world have called on the U.S. Army, and other armed forces, for platforms and ordnance. This as the U.S. military ponders its own supplies, readiness, and the overriding question of the capacity and resilience of the defense industrial supply base.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each week, Defense Reporter Jared Serbu speaks with the managers of the federal government's largest department. Subscribe on PodcastOne or Apple Podcasts.