Defense
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The pandemic has shown federal and industry leaders in the intelligence community: the nature of classified work may be ripe for change.
May 21, 2020 -
John Willison, deputy to the commanding general of the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), said the service is planning for its workforce needs of today as well as 3 or 5 years from now.
May 21, 2020 -
Twenty years after the inception of NMCI, the Navy's networks still aren't unified and have a very hard time dealing with cloud services. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as something of a wake-up call to help fix that.
May 21, 2020 -
Local commanders must show downward trajectory in COVID-19 cases and proper hospital capacity to begin easing restrictions.
May 20, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the military has made some gains in recruiting women over the past 15 years -- but they’re still much less likely to serve for a full career than men are.
May 20, 2020 -
The Defense Innovation Unit made significant strides in increasing the number of commercial prototypes that made it into warfighters’ hands and quickening the pace to award contracts in 2019.
May 20, 2020 -
Analysts at Govini have dissected the trends in PPE spending by the military since 2013.
May 19, 2020 -
Controlling and protecting the new U.S. Space Force’s satellites will require plenty of data. Some of the Space Force’s assets will carry over from the Air Force but it is still a new operation.
May 18, 2020 -
Officials said Friday that DoD’s newest combatant command will stay at its temporary home in Colorado Springs for the next six years; it’s expected to take about that long for a new basing decision to be made and new facilities to be built.
May 18, 2020 -
Coronavirus pushed Air Force to move industry engagements online. Officials wish it had been sooner.The Air Force's top acquisition official says his service has seen so much success with virtual events that it's never going back to in-person-only industry engagements.
May 15, 2020 -
The Defense Department and Congress were hoping for transformational change with the creation of a high-ranking chief management officer to oversee changing to the way the Pentagon runs. In the end, it didn’t get that,…
May 14, 2020 -
In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It's a long list.
May 14, 2020 -
The Navy has started to build virtual replicas of the systems that comprise the IT networks aboard its warships, starting with the ships in the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt strike group.
May 14, 2020 -
The Air Force adapted its survival training to COVID-19 and it likes the results.
May 13, 2020 -
One of the more somber and unpleasant jobs performed by the National Guard is to properly handle the bodies of people who died from COVID-19.
May 13, 2020
