Defense
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The Navy is using the commercially-developed concept of reliability control boards, plus data analytics and artificial intelligence to help determine the root causes of its aviation readiness challenges.
December 17, 2020 -
The service dropped nearly half of the occupations from its reenlistment bonus list for 2021.
December 16, 2020 -
Lifting and shifting an application to the cloud is usually the simplest approach to cloud migration. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. And at the Defense Department, the prevalence of Oracle databases running on Exadata platforms makes it even more complicated.
December 16, 2020 -
The United Service Organizations have received a $3 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to support its Combat COVID-19 initiative.
December 16, 2020 -
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has asked the White House to repeal an Obama-era executive order putting controlled unclassified information requirements in place.
December 16, 2020 -
The department is only naming seven upcoming procurements as candidates for the CMMC pilot program for the moment, but says more could be announced in the coming weeks.
December 15, 2020 -
The Space Force will be the 18th member of the collection of agencies providing national security information.
December 15, 2020 -
Technology has progressed to the point that the biggest obstacle still preventing JADC2 from becoming a reality is culture. It’s how the services and components interact, how they share – or don’t share – their data.
December 14, 2020 -
With some details, Todd Harrison, senior fellow and director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 14, 2020 -
Final bids are due Feb. 8 for yet another massive DoD IT contract. Although it's attracted much less attention than JEDI, this one's winner-take-all too.
December 14, 2020 -
The Senate has approved a wide-ranging defense policy bill, sending it to President Donald Trump, despite his threat to veto it because the bill does not clamp down on big tech companies he claims were biased during the election
December 11, 2020 -
We need to continue to build on technological improvements and ensure they are deployed at every VA facility. That is how the care every veteran deserves can go from good to great.
December 10, 2020 -
The inoculations will go to health care workers and cover about 8% of DoD's medical staff.
December 09, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has questions about his fellow Democrat’s choice to lead the Pentagon.
December 09, 2020 -
An exhaustive review by an independent commission found widespread distrust in Fort Hood's climate for dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault. It also found violent crime rates are unusually high because of a "reactive" approach by law enforcement.
December 09, 2020
