Defense News
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In today's Federal Newscast: Infrastructure plans move forward, as the federal government hires thousands of Americans. The Social Security Administration could lose thousands of employees to retirement in the near future. And the high-flying Air Force experiments with pot leniency in recruitment.
October 14, 2022 -
In an exclusive interview with Federal News Network, Danielle Metz, the new CIO for the Office of the Secretary of Defense outlines a plan to dig 18,000 Pentagon employees out of a decade of technical debt.
October 14, 2022 -
Many agencies struggle with antiquated digital architecture and a lack of skills and talent to implement AI, a chief data scientist at the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service said.
October 12, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Army is creating a new integrated program office to bring all of its zero trust pursuits under one roof. GAO tells GSA it has got a real problem selling real estate efficiently. And Senate inaction causes a top OMB vacancy to remain unfilled, going on five years.
October 12, 2022 -
The Army's updated cloud plan adds urgency for commands to move their legacy systems to the cloud, with more cuts planned to government data centers. Hundreds of other systems deemed to have low business value will be sunset entirely.
October 12, 2022 -
Among other things, initiatives aim to incentivize large prime contractors to incorporate innovations from small businesses into their bid proposals and give contracting officers better tools to manage intellectual property rights.
October 11, 2022 -
The DoD’s CIO and its Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment will remove weapons systems from the network if they are not cyber secure.
October 10, 2022 -
The biggest-yet phase of the bring-your-own-device pilot will help the Army figure out how to scale the technology across a diverse population of users in the active and reserve components — and part of the Air Force too.
October 07, 2022
