Defense
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John Hale, DISA’s chief of enterprise applications, said his office is helping the military services and agencies do the hard work before moving to the cloud.
April 30, 2018 -
In biweekly meetings, DoD contracting experts are chewing through every page of the Pentagon's procurement rules. They expect to eliminate about half.
April 30, 2018 -
The president of Allen Federal Business Partners said opinions on DISA vary between new and established contractors, but that it's highly possible the recommendations make their way into the upcoming defense authorization bill.
April 30, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie urges Congress to take action to permanently fund the Veterans Choice program.
April 30, 2018 -
The Department of Navy outlined its plan for the new CIO organization with new roles for four executives.
April 30, 2018 -
Criminal investigators are looking into contracts that spent $500 million on intel program, at least a tenth of which may have been wasted.
April 27, 2018 -
The 150-member Republican Study Committee has listed its budget priorities for 2019, calling for eliminating all automatic pay raises for federal workers, and increasing their contributions to their own retirement. The conservative group's also wants to make it easier for federal employees to be fired.
April 27, 2018 -
Gen. Raymond Thomas, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), is looking to the corporate world for examples on how to successfully implement machine learning and artificial intelligence into his command.
April 27, 2018 -
A House subcommittee wants to axe the Strategic Capabilities Office, but why?
April 26, 2018 -
The U.S. Transportation Command brought in the U.S Digital Service after its Defense Personnel Property System suffered a two-week outage.
April 26, 2018 -
More than 200 employees with U.S. Customs and Border Protection have been arrested on corruption-related charges in the last 14 years. Thirteen of those arrests have come during the Trump Administration.
April 26, 2018 -
A House panel suggested moving DoD network defense responsibilities away from DISA and over to a "one-stop-shop" for all things cyber.
April 26, 2018 -
The Defense Department's review of its current personnel authorities is late, but House lawmakers say they're still some recruitment and retention challenges they want to tackle in next year's authorization act.
April 25, 2018 -
Rep. Mac Thornberry's (R-Texas) plan to cut seven DoD agencies would affect some 200,000 civilian employees, but it would also affect quite a few contractors too.
April 25, 2018 -
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says there has been a lot of misconceptions about the JEDI contract.
April 24, 2018
