Defense
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Three big reforms in military health are being reconsidered due to the pandemic.
October 08, 2020 -
Mainframes are central to many critical federal services, but what happens when the people who know how to maintain them keep retiring? And what if the next cohort of coders never learned the language in school?
October 08, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Marines Corps' number two officer has tested positive for COVID-19.
October 08, 2020 -
The Army is finding new ways to partner with the communities around its bases. Thanks to a 2015 law that lets the military services sign service agreements with local governments without the pain of traditional federal contracts, it's reached dozens of Intergovernmental Support Agreements for everything from snow removal to animal control.
October 08, 2020 -
The Air Force has a well-known problem of keeping its pilots around. Maybe the crash of the airline industry will help? But it also has the challenge of retaining its best civilians.
October 07, 2020 -
Troops of the future will work hand-in-hand with technology, requiring digital savvy.
October 06, 2020 -
Military leaders who were in contact with Adm. Charles W. Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, have been tested, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement. None have exhibited symptoms or have so far tested positive.
October 06, 2020 -
The controversial White House directive banning what the Trump administration thinks is divisive diversity training - it applies to federal contractors, too.
October 06, 2020 -
A group of 43 House members, including four Republicans, are again calling on the Trump administration to give federal employees and military members the choice to opt-out of the president's payroll tax deferral.
October 05, 2020 -
DoD CIO Dana Deasy says officials have been finding temporary homes for cloud applications that were counting on the long-delayed JEDI program. Other preparatory that's not technically part of the contract has been proceeding apace too.
October 05, 2020 -
The document will attempt to answer some of the department’s key questions about becoming a “data-centric” organization, including how to harness the vast amounts of data it already generates to train future artificial intelligence algorithms.
October 01, 2020 -
The report addresses everything from research and development to supply chain.
September 30, 2020 -
The temporary acquisition task force DoD created in response to COVID-19 will become a permanent assisted acquisition organization.
September 30, 2020 -
The leader of U.S. Space Command says putting troops outside the atmosphere is something that will happen in the far future.
September 29, 2020 -
Two Pentagon components, the Defense Innovation Unit and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, have teamed up with one another, along with Phillips Corporation, on an artificial intelligence project.
September 29, 2020
