Defense

  • If there's anxiety from war, self pity, or cynicism, you don't see it in these faces.

    December 24, 2015
  • This photo gallery shows how U.S. Navy personnel and their families are celebrating the holiday season at home and abroad.

    December 24, 2015
  • The Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are preparing for their winter mission of tracking winter storms to provide data to the National Weather Service.

    December 23, 2015
  • Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.

    December 23, 2015
  • Navy identified dozens of systems due to transition to new consolidated data centers, but are still at risk for failing to comply with DoD cyber regulations

    December 22, 2015
  • The number-two civilian jobs in all three military departments are vacant for the moment. But the Senate could vote as soon as next month to confirm new undersecretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, the nominees say their top priorities will be restoring military readiness and shrinking their departments’ headquarters staffs.

    December 22, 2015
  • Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.

    December 22, 2015
  • Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Navy to cut back on capacity and invest more in capability in a letter last week.

    December 21, 2015
  • The National Commission on the Future of the Army is closing in on a year of work and is expected to come out with its final report by Feb. 1. The commission has been tight lipped on what recommendations it will give the Army. In its latest meeting, the commission let a few details slip. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione was there and fills in the details for Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Read Scott's related story.

    December 21, 2015
  • The Army's congressionally mandated commission gives some insight as to what will be in its report coming out next year.

    December 17, 2015
  • Last week, former Taliban POW Bowe Bergdahl broke his media silence about his reasons for abandoning his Army unit by way of the popular Serial podcast. And just a few days later, the Army made the decision to try Bergdahl for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy via a general court martial — not the lower-level tribunal that had been recommended in the military's version of a preliminary hearing. Eric Montalvo is a former Marine Corps lawyer who spent 21 years as both a military prosecutor and defense attorney. He now works for the firm Federal Practice Group. In this week's Legal Loop, he talks to Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the latest developments in the Bergdahl case, including the Army's sudden decision to try the matter in a general court martial, not a special court martial.

    December 17, 2015
  • Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talk to retired Rear Adm. Janice Hamby, chancellor of the National Defense University, about women in leadership.

    December 16, 2015
  • Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall is the Air Force's assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. She's one of the most senior female officers in the U.S military and throughout her career, she's been the first woman in most of the jobs she held as she rose though the ranks of the Air Force. But Urrutia-Varhall said that particular distinction wasn't something she paid much attention to over the last 30 years. In a recent appearance on Federal News Radio’s Women of Washington, Urritia-Varhall talked about her career and why many women in the military opt-out of career paths that could lead to high-ranking jobs like the one she holds now.

    December 16, 2015
  • The Air Force's personnel experts team up with cyber pros to fix downtime on the service's HR systems, which have serious domino effects each time there's an outage.

    December 14, 2015

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