Defense
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The Army is changing the way it trains, deploys and modernizes to focus on its people.
October 14, 2020 -
Billions have been spent to overhaul the Army's aging weapons plants, but officials say the system needs a fundamental rethinking to make it agile enough to keep up with military requirements.
October 14, 2020 -
The Defense Department will also begin using the Department of Veterans Affairs' Video Connect platform later this fall for telehealth visits in the military health system. The Video Connect platform is responsible for an 1000% increase in VA telehealth appointments since the pandemic began in mid-March.
October 13, 2020 -
A major reason for hitting 2020 goals, however, was less attrition and more personnel staying with the service.
October 13, 2020 -
DISA received the 2020 Verdure award from the Defense Department for demonstrating fresh approaches to balancing the development of efficient procurement methods and the utilization of small businesses under its systems engineering, technology and innovation contract.
October 13, 2020 -
The Defense Department is putting $600 million into 5G in five new military installations.
October 13, 2020 -
The use of robotics process automation, natural language processing and other emerging technologies are gaining momentum in the federal acquisition community to speed up the entire process.
October 12, 2020 -
Agencies are finding out just how closely linked zero trust is with other long-term efforts like ICAM and BYOD as COVID accelerates each.
October 12, 2020 -
The chairs of three House committees are looking into allegations that the Defense Department misspent about $1 billion in coronavirus relief funding.
October 09, 2020 -
The Defense Department finalized its first-ever data strategy focused on eight guiding principles and seven goals to bring some standardization and governance to how the services and agencies manage information.
October 09, 2020 -
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
