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Chief information officers are engaging more than ever in agency mission delivery. Part of the problem, at least in the military, is historic and structural, according to Brig. Gen. Sarah Zabel. She\'s director of cyberspace strategy and policy in the Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Air Force. On In Depth with Francis Rose, she explained the history behind the separation between mission and IT, and how to bring them together to help fight wars.
April 22, 2015 -
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The Navy has five financial opportunities to modernize its fleet, according to Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and former special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. He was one witness at a hearing of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces. The other witness at the hearing was Bryan McGrath, managing director of the FerryBridge Group, and former director of the Navy Strategic Actions Group. On In Depth with Francis Rose, they talked about what the committee asked -- and what they didn\'t ask.
April 22, 2015 -
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Three out of 19 women that started the latest class of Army Ranger School yesterday have left the school. That\'s compared to 78 out of 380 men. Eventually, women will make it through Ranger School, and that\'s a good thing, according to retired Army Lt. General David Barno. He\'s a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at American University\'s School of International Service. On In Depth with Francis Rose, Barno explained the significance of Ranger School and why it\'s important women are there.
April 21, 2015 -
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Five military associations are calling on the House Armed Services Committee members to take a closer look at several of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission\'s recommendations.
April 20, 2015 -
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Midshipmen defeat service academy rivals for top cyber prize.
April 17, 2015 -
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The Army\'s electronic warfare capabilities have been an important tool during the war in Iraq. They\'ve taken a big evolutionary step with the new Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool. It\'s designed to give soldiers more options in dealing with improvised explosive devices, and it won\'t necessarily destroy local infrastructure when deployed. Col. Joseph Dupont, the Project Manager of the Electronic Warfare office, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the tool.
April 16, 2015 -
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The Navy and Air Force contemplate partnering up to develop the next generation of fighters, which are currently due out in 2030. Rear Adm. Mike Manazir is the director of Air Warfare for the Navy. He says the goal is to develop a successor that fits both services\' goals. On the Federal Drive at the Sea-Air-Space 2015 conference at National Harbor, Manazir gave Federal News Radio\'s Emily Kopp his vision for the future of naval aviation.
April 14, 2015 -
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What are the U.S. Army\'s key strategic and operational objectives? How is the Army restructuring its aviation portfolio? How is the Army using analytics to inform decision-making and resource allocation? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with Brigadier General John Ferrari, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the U.S. Army\'s deputy chief of staff.
April 14, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is creating a new commodity technology shared service provider to serve the Pentagon and other locations in the Washington, D.C. area. DoD will issue a memo in the coming weeks to merge the Army\'s IT agency and other IT service providers into the Defense Information System Agency. In his biweekly feature, \"Inside the Reporter\'s Notebook,\" executive editor Jason Miller has exclusive details of this new shared services set up. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review them.
April 13, 2015 -
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The Navy says its aging fleet of nuclear-armed submarines can\'t last much longer. The Ohio-class subs now doing the job were supposed to be retired years ago. But replacing them is complicated and costly. It\'s also the Navy\'s top shipbuilding priority. Rear Adm. Joseph Tofalo, the Navy\'s director of undersea warfare, spoke about the Ohio replacement program at Sea-Air-Space 2015. He joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with a preview.
April 13, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is creating a single shared-services office for all commodity information technology for the Washington metro area and placing it under the Defense Information Systems Agency.
April 13, 2015 -
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Within weeks, the Army says it will deploy systems that, for the first time, will give commanders access to the systems they need for mission command and planning, while they and their troops are airborne.
April 09, 2015 -
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The Air Force is adding triple the staff to its F-35 Integration Office. That increases the staff from four to 12. And Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, said the aircraft\'s cost curve is finally starting to come down. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian is the new director of the F-35 Integration Office at the Air Force. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he talked about cost, capability, and lessons learned from the program.
April 08, 2015 -
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The Department of Navy\'s Cyber Fleet Command is among the first military services to recognize the need to operationalize cyber along with traditional weapons. DISA Director Gen. Ronnie Hawkins said the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) should move into a cyber range to test the security architecture against real-world attack simulations.
April 08, 2015
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