Defense
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The National Archives and Records Administration's National Personnel Records Center has a backlog of more than 500,000 requests and 400,000 records that need refiling. The agency estimates it will take two years to resolve the backlog without extra help.
May 20, 2021 -
Pentagon says its putting a greater emphasis on the sustainment of weapons systems — a part of the lifecycle that accounts for 70% of the cost of a weapon.
May 20, 2021 -
The Defense Department would have plenty of company in canceling something that is looking more and more irretrievable.
May 19, 2021 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. That executive order on cybersecurity from the White House last week – where do you even…
May 18, 2021 -
Disparities in vaccine hesitancy could effect readiness, the authors state.
May 18, 2021 -
The Space Hour spoke to former President and CEO of VOX Space Mandy Vaughn
May 17, 2021 -
Masks are no longer required for fully-vaccinated employees, contractors and visitors inside federal buildings, the Office of Management and Budget told agencies last week. Maximum telework guidelines remain in place.
May 17, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon says military members and civilian employees can do their jobs without masks, as long as they’re fully vaccinated.
May 17, 2021 -
A careful examination of DoD's use of consortiums for other transaction agreements found the Pentagon doesn't have a clear picture of its billions in OTA spending, who the recipients are, and what it's getting for those investments.
May 17, 2021 -
Mark Johnson, vice president, Department of Defense at Oracle, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies make the move to a hybrid cloud environment.
May 17, 2021 -
Moving quickly on directions from Congress, the Trump Administration dissolved what had been DoD's third highest-ranking position during its last week in office. The Biden Administration hasn't yet decided if it wants to alter those plans.
May 17, 2021 -
California’s Vandenberg Air Force Basehas been renamed as a U.S. Space Force Base
May 14, 2021 -
Edward Tuorinsky, the managing principal of DTS, and Derek Kernus, the Director of Cyber Security Operations at DTS, offers three things to consider as the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements become more real.
May 14, 2021 -
Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s chief software officer, said rebalancing the contractor-federal employee ratio is important to ensure the right oversight continues without delaying the delivery of software.
May 14, 2021 -
Four of the 18 rights have been stuck in negotiations with housing contractors.
May 13, 2021
