Defense
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"It's been a case of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul," NASA's Norm Augustine said. "And Peter's about to run out of money to borrow."
September 27, 2024 -
The service recruited 55,300 new soldiers in fiscal 2024, meeting its recruitment target, after it hoped to bring 60,000 recruits in 2022 and 65,000 in 2023.
September 26, 2024 -
Senators voted Tuesday to confirm Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark for a fourth star and as commander of U.S. Army Pacific.
September 26, 2024 -
"The number of vendors is shrinking, the market is concentrating and it's becoming more stratified that the top," Bloomberg Government analyst Paul Murphy said.
September 26, 2024 -
"One of the problems is the Defense Department doesn't use the software and data that all first-class enterprises in the world use," Jeb Nadaner said.
September 26, 2024 -
NASA and the Defense Department have very different missions. They share the fact that they're stretched thin in some ways, and the nation is the loser.
September 26, 2024 -
Army officials are working to inculcate agile principles within their own organizations, but also need a new contract vehicle to buy software from industry.
September 25, 2024 -
"We urge the DoD to really focus significant investment on next generation semiconductor technologies," said Liesl Folks.
September 25, 2024 -
The new tool sifts through over 30 million applicant files, and uses 1,700 different variables to generate highly refined prospect lists.
September 24, 2024 -
Sources say the law enforcement activity included two criminal and one civil subpoena.
September 24, 2024 -
“We got more people at the gates than we can handle right now. We’re just making sure we set a foundation that makes sense," Army CIO Leonel Garciga said.
September 23, 2024 -
A bench trial began last week in Baltimore federal court in a civil case over affirmative action at American military academies. Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the school should be allowed to continue using race as an admissions factor because prioritizing diversity in the military makes it stronger and more effective. But the group that brought the case, Students for Fair Admissions, says candidates should be evaluated based only on other factors, including socioeconomics. The group was also behind the case that led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that ended the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. The group also sued West Point, but the Naval Academy case went to trial first.
September 23, 2024 -
A new task force will get the Space Futures Command to its initial operating capability "if not by the end of this year, then within a year."
September 20, 2024 -
"The battlefield is getting more contested and more complex and more challenging — and our near peers are pushing hard," Jason Mallare said.
September 20, 2024 -
“The things we’re doing are pretty logical there. They’re aligned with what our needs are relative to the threat," Frank Kendall said.
September 19, 2024
