Defense
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Exact numbers and specific challenges spouses faces can be fuzzy, but the Institute for Veterans and Military Families in partnership with Prudential Financial is trying to shed some light on the issues.
July 06, 2018 -
Section 814 of the Senate's recently passed defense spending bill seeks to modify the limitations on certain single award task and delivery order contracts.
July 06, 2018 -
The Pentagon's inspector general found a senior Marine commander — who is also a former Marine Inspector General — tasked an aide with jobs that compare with "personal servitude."
July 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Transportation is letting a “limited number” of young veterans and military reservists who’ve obtained the military equivalent of a commercial drivers license operate commercial trucks on domestic highways.
July 05, 2018 -
Special hiring authorities for personnel working in government-owned depots are set to expire in September.
July 04, 2018 -
Scott Schlimmer, co-founder of Cybersaint Security, and Bill Brennan, senior director of cyber business enablement at Leidos, explain why contractors could risk losing their contracts if they don’t comply.
July 04, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the State Department plans to spend almost $1 billion to modernize four key services under the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
July 03, 2018 -
The Pentagon clarifies CIO's new role in "cloud initiative." Dana Deasy's portfolio of responsibilities includes the JEDI contract, but it's not clear what else.
July 03, 2018 -
A congressional advisory panel says lawmakers have provided numerous ways for DoD to speed up its hiring of acquisition professionals. In fact, they may be too numerous.
July 03, 2018 -
The Navy awards a $100 million contract to operate the government's latest consortium of companies aiming to get in on the military's increasing reliance on other transaction agreements.
July 03, 2018 -
Things are moving fast as summer rolls on and mid-term elections near.
July 02, 2018 -
Traditionally, the government considers that a good thing for the economy and because it ensures the gear allies use is interoperable with what U.S. armed forces have.
July 02, 2018 -
If the Defense Department wants faster and better ways to do acquisition, it's got to do more than change a few rules.
July 02, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Raphael Sanchez, former chief counsel for Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Office of Principal Legal Advisor used the identities of undocumented immigrants to open fraudulent lines of credit.
July 02, 2018 -
Frank Konieczny, the Air Force CIO, said the service is figuring out how to authenticate connected devices.
June 29, 2018
