Defense
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The Defense Department released a strategy outlining how it will keep its edge in space.
June 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Elaine McCusker, DoD’s acting comptroller and chief financial officer, will step down on June 26. She was nominated by President Trump for a permanent position, but it was revoked over reported disagreements about Ukraine.
June 17, 2020 -
Lawmakers chided the services for not addressing the issue sooner.
June 16, 2020 -
The escalating dispute between the U.S. and China over Chinese telecom giant Huawei has contractors wondering about telecom policy generally.
June 16, 2020 -
Manu Sharma, an aerospace engineer and CEO of Labelbox, explains why lawmakers should include new mandates in the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill to accelerate the utility of artificial intelligence tools.
June 15, 2020 -
The Army will bifurcate its headquarters IT leadership office in August, creating a separate CIO office to make IT policies and putting a three-star military officer in charge of implementing them.
June 15, 2020 -
The Pentagon expects to move ahead with its plan to downsize or close dozens of medical facilities by the end of 2020.
June 15, 2020 -
Many traditional cybersecurity tools focus on managing risk as opposed to combating it actively head on, says Jacob Noffke, senior principal cyber engineer at Raytheon Intelligence & Space.
June 12, 2020 -
The Government Accountability Office ruled against GDIT in its protest of the $7.7 billion award to Leidos. A separate protest, filed by Perspecta, is due to be settled by next week.
June 12, 2020 -
The fourth quarter sprint to the finish line of the 2020 fiscal year starts in less than three weeks. So what can federal contractors expect?
June 11, 2020 -
If spending priorities tell what's important to an organization, then the Military Health System ranks pretty low.
June 11, 2020 -
Contractors haven't submitted invoices yet, partly because no money is available. But DoD says the bill to repay vendors for their employees' paid leave will run into the double-digit billion dollar range.
June 11, 2020 -
GAO dismissed Perspecta’s second protest of the enterprise email and cloud collaboration contract called DEOS awarded to GDIT in August after GSA said it would take corrective action.
June 10, 2020 -
The Navy has long said it wants to replace its “industrial age” personnel processes with 21st century approaches to talent management.
June 10, 2020 -
In 2017, Congress ordered the Pentagon to restructure its medical treatment facilities. A mandated GAO review finds DoD relied on incomplete data.
June 10, 2020
