Defense
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The Army recently appointed its first ever lead trial counsel, a Senate-confirmed one-star general. Her job will be to prosecute cases of murder, rape and sexual assaults.
January 23, 2023 -
After two years of investigation, DoD's inspector general concludes the former deputy CFO created an offensive work environment.
January 20, 2023 -
The Defense Intelligence Agency is spearheading a shared IT services program called "Company Storefront."
January 18, 2023 -
Margaret Boatner, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said the service will hire as many as 10 experts to help acquisition offices and vendors improve their management of intellectual property.
January 17, 2023 -
The Army is planning a significant multiple-award ID/IQ to tie the communication advancements it's achieved at the tactical edge into a more manageable structuring of its tools and the data they produce.
January 17, 2023 -
Veterans groups keep a close eye on authorization and appropriations for the military. They're please with increases in housing allowances for troops planned for 2023.
January 13, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: A soldier has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for $3 million in PPP loan fraud. New recommendations are out on how to collect sexual orientation and gender-identity data. And the clock is ticking on your chance to donate to the Combined Federal Campaign.
January 13, 2023 -
Percipient.AI alleges NGA and prime contractor CACI are ignoring a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products.
January 13, 2023 -
The U.S. has now collected 510 reports of unidentified flying objects, many of which are flying in sensitive military airspace. That's according to a declassified intelligence report summary released Thursday.
January 13, 2023 -
Goodies keep surfacing in the nearly 4,000-page National Defense Authorization Act.
January 12, 2023 -
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dalhgren Division, like other defense units, seeks to bring new industrial capabilities quickly to benefit the mission. Now it has entered into a new other-transaction-agreement, or OTA, to do just that. OTAs in the right circumstances let agencies speed up acquisitions, often non-competitive ones.
January 11, 2023 -
Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding.
January 11, 2023 -
The Pentagon has formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.
January 10, 2023 -
Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer, said despite protest delays, the service is taking steps to prepare for the future enterprise IT-as-a-service approach.
January 10, 2023 -
A procurement management review helps defense agencies develop better systems for handling contract paperwork.
January 09, 2023
