Defense
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The plan will look at Army policies, biases and even marketing to bring the best talent to the top.
September 24, 2020 -
This week’s update from the Pentagon shows just over half of the military’s worldwide installations are now in the “green” category – meaning servicemembers can move to and from those bases without special permission.
September 24, 2020 -
The Air Force's top acquisition official said reforms that were initiated long before a pandemic was on the horizon went a long way toward dealing with the current emergency.
September 24, 2020 -
Sometimes the Federal Acquisition Regulation calls for meaningful discussions between government and would-be contractors. The lack thereof can result in issues like the one the Navy and one of its suppliers are having.
September 23, 2020 -
The Air Force and Space Force want all of the new systems they buy to be produced via digital engineering processes. But the defense industry needs to get on board first.
September 23, 2020 -
Like with telework, the Air Force may never go back to teaching the same way again.
September 22, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Nicholas Chaillan, The Air Force's Chief Software Officer, joins host John Gilroy to discuss Platform One and Cloud One, and why they are creative and innovative approaches to improving software for the service.
September 21, 2020 -
Like most of the rest of us, the vast majority of the acquisition workforce had to adapt to a full-time telework environment almost overnight.
September 21, 2020 -
The White House says a new agency-level appeals process for clearance denials could expose classified information, increase processing time.
September 21, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast: A former defense contractor is sentenced to prison for fraud and bribery. The Census Bureau’s IT infrastructure has performed better than officials expected. And the Air Force improves its policy for nursing mothers to improve retention.
September 18, 2020 -
The Defense Department and government at large need to bolster their workforce around artificial intelligence and invest more heavily in the underlying infrastructure supporting it, according to commissioners of a congressionally-mandated panel. Members of the…
September 17, 2020 -
The intelligence community expects information warfare to be the next big disrupter as the cyber domain becomes more contested, and industry becomes part of the national security attack surface.
September 17, 2020 -
Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, the Air Force’s assistant deputy chief information officer for digital transformation, said Offutt Air Force Base and Buckley Air Force Base have received the go-ahead to go from a 10% capacity on their network-as-a-service up toward 100% capacity.
September 17, 2020 -
The National Armaments Consortium has a new way of working with the Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium, a group sponsored by the Secretary of Defense aimed at better and faster prototyping.
September 17, 2020 -
For the first time in a couple of dozen blue moons, Congress may not pass the National Defense Authorization Act before the end of the fiscal year. The House and Senate versions have some politically serious differences.
September 17, 2020
