Defense
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The Pentagon's new Cyber Excepted Service will extend the probationary period for new employees to three years and give hiring managers more flexibility to recruit candidates.
August 30, 2017 -
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) demands answers from the Navy within two weeks about what it's done to address $21 million in waste by an unauthorized police force.
August 30, 2017 -
The military is expecting the need for tens of thousands of National Guard and active duty troops to deal with the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.
August 29, 2017 -
As President Trump arrived in Houston Tuesday afternoon, he joined many federal employees already at work providing relief to hurricane victims.
August 29, 2017 -
Forcing transgender service members to leave could deal a critical blow to the military's readiness and waste hundreds of millions of dollars.
August 28, 2017 -
The Army Cyber Center of Excellence became fully operational on Aug. 9 and published in April its first doctrine for how it fights in cyberspace to include electronic warfare.
August 28, 2017 -
After almost six years of the cloud-first policy, agencies are gaining an understanding what it takes to move to the cloud.
August 28, 2017 -
DoD’s regulatory reform task force is meeting every two weeks to finalize recommendations to meet President Trump’s executive order.
August 25, 2017 -
Bryan Clark, former special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, offers insight into what might be going on inside a troubled Navy.
August 24, 2017 -
In 2000, 4 percent of Navy ship deployments lasted longer than six months. Now they all do.
August 24, 2017 -
U.S. Cyber Command's elevation to a unified combatant command is "mostly symbolic," but the symbolism is important.
August 24, 2017 -
The White House ordered agencies to reduce and reform regulations with a goal of getting rid of two for every new one they write.
August 23, 2017 -
White hat hackers discovered 207 verified vulnerabilities in Air Force systems, including some very serious ones.
August 23, 2017 -
The second ramming of a Navy ship this summer brings the total loss of life to 17 sailors.
August 22, 2017 -
A new sequestration update determined defense discretionary spending would need to be cut by $72.4 billion in fiscal 2018 based on the House appropriations bills.
August 21, 2017
