Defense
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Attorney Robert Capovilla says discharging service members who refused COVID vaccines has legal and military flaws.
February 22, 2022 -
The Biden administration pulled U.S. troops and pretty much everything else out of Afghanistan months ago. But the work of the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction goes on.
February 22, 2022 -
One of the Navy's diagnoses for poor user experience is endpoint security run amok, multiple malware scanners fighting each other constantly. The service has a plan to fix at least that part of the problem.
February 22, 2022 -
Becca Stewart, an intelligence analyst and special teams manager at The Counterterrorism Group, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss the situation with Ukraine and Russia, the prominence of Islamist terrorism within Africa, and the rise of incel extremism.
February 22, 2022 -
Since November at least six agencies issued notices or requests for information/proposals to industry seeking feedback on how to do more to protect their supply chains.
February 21, 2022 -
The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is planning the launch of a new joint fleet of unmanned drones with allied nations to patrol vast swaths of the region’s volatile waters as tensions simmer with Iran
February 21, 2022 -
Vimesh Patel, chief technology advisor for WWT, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges of software modernization for the federal government.
February 21, 2022 -
The Navy Department’s top IT official says current cyber approval processes create strange incentives that degrade systems’ security instead of improving it.
February 18, 2022 -
Top maritime military officials say revamping the Defense Department’s budget process could be beneficial for the services, but say they also see a need for legislative reforms as well.
February 17, 2022 -
The U.S. military establishment is so focused on future technology that it risks national security right now. That's the thesis of my next guest. She argues an obsession with future, and futuristic, technology can lead planners off course.
February 17, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, federal agencies say over the past two years, Russian state-sponsored hackers have systematically infiltrated the unclassified networks of cleared defense contractors.
February 17, 2022 -
Dozens of National Guard Army and Air Force troops in New Mexico have been stepping in to fill a shortage of teachers in schools
February 17, 2022 -
The modernization of government IT has been happening these days during a period of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and a dramatic expansion of the government’s cyber defense operations.
February 16, 2022 -
Each year the Federal Laboratory Consortium, the network of the government's technology transfer operations, honors one of its members as laboratory director of the year. This year's honoree directs the Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
February 16, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it requires the expertise and analysis of industry-leading zero Trust analysts, consultants and practitioners to meet the new White House requirements.
February 16, 2022
