Defense
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In just a few weeks the annual budget dance, this time for 2023, will start. People who follow these things closely predict the White House will request only a very small increase for the Defense Department, knowing Congress will plus it up anyway.
March 02, 2022 -
Financial management problems at the Defense Department show up year after year. Throw in problems at the Small Business Administration and a few other persistent issues, and it's impossible to accurately assess the state of federal finances. And that's the conclusion from the latest look at the government's consolidated statements conducted by the Government Accountability Office.
March 02, 2022 -
Dozens of U.S. Navy officials have admitted to being bought off by a gregarious, rotund Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who plied them with prostitutes, Cuban cigars and free stays at the Philippines’ Shangri-La hotel among other things
March 02, 2022 -
Longtime federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
March 01, 2022 -
The Space Development Agency awarded OTAs to three firms, each of whom will need to launch interoperable satellites that conform to DoD's National Defense Space Architecture.
March 01, 2022 -
This week's Space Hour features a panel that Eric White hosted recently for AFCEA NoVa's Space Force IT Day earlier this month on the topic of the State of the Space Industrial Base.
February 28, 2022 -
New reports from DoD and NDIA highlight ongoing challenges the defense industrial base is facing in light of rising tensions among near peer competitors.
February 28, 2022 -
The capabilities of the Russian military have been on display for several days now, its strengths, its weaknesses and general operational doctrines.
February 28, 2022 -
Let's face it. China may no longer be a near-peer to the United States, militarily. It's likely caught up and could even be ahead. Analysis by Govini finds that to gain or keep an advantage, military leaders don't need more money. They need better decision science.
February 28, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the departments of Defense and Labor and the Small Business Administration stopped the federal government from fully understanding the state of their finances.
February 28, 2022 -
The agency's new "commercial supplier matrix" is intended to help intelligence analysts and other users sort through a growing mountain of space imagery.
February 25, 2022 -
The U.S. military gets legal advice from the JAGs before using force, but the Air Force is seeing if AI can improve and speed up that advice.
February 24, 2022 -
The Army says giving commanders access to data is helping with innovation.
February 23, 2022 -
The CMMC AB is gearing up for voluntary assessments and is also looking to recruit more cybersecurity assessors, but the timeline for CMMC remains as unclear as ever.
February 23, 2022 -
In 20 years, the number of annual reports the Defense Department must make to Congress has nearly tripled to more than 1,400.
February 23, 2022
