Defense
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter's defense innovation hub continues to live up to its concept, iterating and improving rapidly as it becomes bi-coastal.
July 27, 2016 -
The Army, Navy, and Air Force on Monday released their supplier performance ratings shortlists for 2016 — an honor roll for contractors' business units scored highly by the military acquisition community.
July 26, 2016 -
To help with retention rates, the Air Force is eliminating some additional duties from airmen's responsibilities.
July 26, 2016 -
DoD's newest procurement system attempts to walk the line between best value and lowest-priced, technically acceptable.
July 26, 2016 -
The Army Logistics Maintenance Program eliminated $2 billion in costs for old systems maintenance and cut $4 billion in “spare” parts the Army doesn't need.
July 25, 2016 -
DoD’s new procurement evaluation process, value-adjusted total evaluated price, is part of a movement away from subjective evaluation of enhancements, and toward a more objective and quantifiable system.
July 25, 2016 -
The Air Force's top enlisted officer is appealing to the Senate to reconsider its provision changing the Basic Allowance for Housing.
July 20, 2016 -
The Army is behind schedule on transitioning to Windows 10 by 2017. Legacy systems are partly to blame.
July 15, 2016 -
The Defense Department has begun initial steps to create a new civilian cyber workforce outside the strictures of the traditional civil service system.
July 15, 2016 -
Maj. Gen. Thomas Seamands joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss the goals and mission of the Army Human Resources Command. July 22, 2016
July 13, 2016 -
The United States is hiring contractors to maintain aircraft in Afghanistan to keep the number of deployed troops lower.
July 06, 2016 -
With robots actually doing more in the 21st century, one researcher thinks they might actually need to learn how to interact with people. The Office of Naval Research is working with Georgia Tech associate professor, Mark Reidl, to teach them some manners.
July 06, 2016 -
The Senate confirmed a new head of the Navy's Fleet Cyber Command and new chief of staff of the Air Force.
June 30, 2016 -
Jack Midgley, executive officer, Defense and Social Infrastructure, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co. Ltd., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the company's 2016 Global Defense Outlook. June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016 -
Now that Congress looks poised to reject the Defense Department’s requests for another round of base realignments and closures (BRAC) for a fifth year in a row, the Air Force has decided to start its own process to calculate how valuable each of its bases actually are to the various missions it performs.
June 24, 2016
