Defense
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Lt. Col. Christian Patterson became the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center's first African-American commander. He spoke with Federal News Network's Eric White.
August 01, 2022 -
Voluntary CMMC assessments are set to begin in late August, but the just-released assessment process is leaving a lot of people scratching their heads.
July 29, 2022 -
Service members are facing long travel times and financial burdens to get abortions.
July 29, 2022 -
Experts estimated around 20,000 people are assaulted in the military each year. The Army, Navy and Air Force are implementing new policies aimed at reducing assaults.
July 28, 2022 -
In Federal Drive host Tom Temin's final interview of this week's series on naval oceanography, he talks with the Mine Warfare Center's commanding officer, Commander Matthew Watts.
July 28, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: No surprise. Inflation is hitting the contracting community, along with everyone else. GAO reports that DoD has shoddy tactics for testing children for lead exposure. And the Customs and Border Protection directorate hits facial recognition technology right between the eyes.
July 28, 2022 -
On this week's edition of On DoD: When the Navy set out to simplifying its journey to modern software development, officials decided to not reinvent the wheel. So they borrowed heavily from the Air Force's Platform One initiative.
July 27, 2022 -
All of the military services are having issues recruiting enough people to fill their ranks.
July 27, 2022 -
Commander Angela Francis is commanding officer of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to tell us more about her job.
July 27, 2022 -
GAO found DoD's Industrial Base Policy Office doesn't have a fully developed strategy to mitigate risks. Director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Bill Russell, joined the Federal Drive to explain.
July 27, 2022 -
The Small Business Administration is trying to address the 40% decline in the small business industrial base over the last decade with new initiatives.
July 26, 2022 -
The Army is reevaluating its end strength numbers because recruitment is so challenging.
July 26, 2022 -
The Defense Department has issued a request for information on a study of finance. Three years in development, the study is supposed to take a comprehensive look at financing and the financial health of the defense industrial base. Many contractors think the study is too narrow in scope.
July 26, 2022 -
This week the Federal Drive is exploring the activities under the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. For details about his work in Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Oceanography Antisubmarine Warfare Center's Commander Christopher Tuggle joined the program.
July 26, 2022 -
Large and heavy as they might be, the Navy's ships are affected by weather. Operations and planning depend on knowing what the weather will bring.
July 25, 2022
