Defense
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It has a name but no keel yet, the Coast Guard's next polar security cutter. Shipbuilding is but one issue the Coast Guard is dealing with.
April 05, 2022 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and DoD Comptroller Michael McCord represented the Pentagon’s vanguard in defending the $773 billion 2023 budget request to Congress on Tuesday.
April 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department has charged three Army servicemembers for allegedly having a key role in a criminal network that supplied guns to gang members in Chicago.
April 04, 2022 -
While the Biden administration is asking for $773 billion for 2023, that number may not go as far as hoped. DoD says it finished up its planning for 2023 before inflation rates rose and before Russia invaded Ukraine causing oil prices to spike.
April 04, 2022 -
It may take 20 years or more before the Air Force has its pilot shortage situation back to where it is breaking even.
March 31, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.
March 31, 2022 -
The $13.8 billion budget suggests getting a commercial icebreaker.
March 30, 2022 -
A simple competition for software licenses ended up in court after the losing bidder claimed a Procurement Integrity Act violation. At issue was a Navy-run competition to supply software licenses over five years under a blanket purchase agreement. Simple, but not trivial, with an estimated ceiling of $2.5 billion.
March 30, 2022 -
The awards to large cloud computing providers, originally expected by next month, will be delayed until December, the Defense Department said.
March 30, 2022 -
About 30,000 active duty service members in the last 20 years have died by suicide. Now DARPA seeks to prevent this by working upstream from conscious thoughts.
March 29, 2022 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress for a $773 billion budget in 2023, which it says is crucial to continuing its concept of “integrated deterrence” — using weapons in multiple domains to project power — as it continues to identify China as the main threat to the United States.
March 28, 2022 -
The Army will continue to decrease its active duty force to 473,000.
March 28, 2022 -
Space Force has begun moving from strategy to operation. The U.S. military’s first digital force is training guardians and establishing a digital lexicon. We learn more from Space Force’s Col. Charles Galbreath during a chat at the DoD Cloud Exchange.
March 25, 2022 -
The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
March 25, 2022 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center is prioritizing a cross-functional workforce as it looks to get the most out of a hybrid environment consisting of commercial cloud, on-premises cloud and data centers.
March 25, 2022
