Defense
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The Army's 2017 budget would roughly double the funding line which pays for involuntary mobilizations of selected reservists within the National Guard and Army Reserve.
February 29, 2016 -
Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione shares the latest on the Defense Department's new rule on independent research and development,
February 23, 2016 -
Individual DoD components are still, to a large extent, on their own when it comes to picking a provider and shepherding them through the military’s security approval process. The Navy hopes to change that beginning next month with a managed service it’s calling its “Cloud Store.”
February 22, 2016 -
A message to the fleet dated Feb. 5 says administrators of all unclassified systems have only one week left to implement two-factor authentication using Common Access Cards.
February 22, 2016 -
The Army is whittling down its 14,000 soldier backlog of noncommissioned officers that need educational training.
February 17, 2016 -
Federal auditors have rejected a protest by Boeing and Lockheed Martin and upheld an Air Force decision to award a lucrative new bomber contract to Northrop Grumman Corp.
February 17, 2016 -
Air Force says it's all-in on agile methodology to update its main intelligence analysis system and will no longer use traditional block upgrades.
February 17, 2016 Greg Wenzel, executive vice president and lead, Digital Initiatives, at Booz Allen Hamilton's Strategic Initiative Group, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how agencies can generate and store big data in a secure manner. February 16, 2016
February 16, 2016-
While you can make some comparisons, The F-35-as-Edsel is an imperfect analogy. And not a particularly useful one.
February 16, 2016 -
The Army uses Other Transaction Authority to buy cyber prototypes and hopes to use IT Box to deploy them broadly.
February 15, 2016 -
President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal gives the Defense Department $524 billion, plus another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations.
February 15, 2016 -
Charlie Armstrong called it a career after spending the last seven-plus years as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology and CIO for CBP.
February 15, 2016 -
The Air Force had previously predicted it would be fully ready for high-end conflict by 2025. That date keeps slipping because its pilots and planes are busy in the Middle East.
February 15, 2016 -
Rich Lombardi, the service’s principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, has been reassigned after he did not properly disclose a financial interest in a defense firm.
February 12, 2016 -
One-year emergency budget spending won't cut it when it comes to modernizing and training the Army, members of the Future of the Army Commission told Congress.
February 11, 2016
