Defense
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The Mississippi River has two things many rivers lack. It's got its very own commission established by Congress in 1879. And it has a sister river, the Mekong of Vietnam and Cambodia fame. The Mekong also has a four-nation commission that also includes Laos and Thailand under the auspices of the State Department since 2010, the two river commissions have had a memorandum of understanding to work together.
August 24, 2022 -
Housing has long been a major benefit for service members, a subsidy to salaries that trail the private sector
August 24, 2022 -
The largest ever investigation into sexual assault in the military finished up its work about a year ago, but the Defense Department still has years of work ahead of it to implement the suggestions the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military flagged for the Pentagon.
August 23, 2022 -
A U.S. judge is upholding a previous ruling to detain a Hawaii couple accused of stealing identities of dead babies.
August 22, 2022 -
The Pentagon has once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona
August 22, 2022 -
Foreign actors in many sections of the internet actively seek to deny the United States and its allies free use of the internet, even to foster civil unrest and violence.
August 22, 2022 -
Also in today's Federal Newscast, reimbursements for military housing are not keeping up with inflation, and the Combined Federal Campaign needs more leaders.
August 22, 2022 -
The program will help parents who are struggling to find weekend care.
August 19, 2022 -
Both pilots rely heavily on the groundwork already laid by the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, and are expected to start onboarding large numbers of new users by early October.
August 19, 2022 -
Robert Beuerlein, a recently retired Army information warfare officer and now-principal consultant at Frost and Sullivan, told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the trends he's seen in his research.
August 18, 2022 -
The IPPS-A program will bring mobile personnel and pay services to soldiers, as well as a talent marketplace.
August 17, 2022 -
DoD does not have an overarching policy to deal with active shooters, which may lead to confusion in a live situation.
August 16, 2022 -
The Defense Department was not the only agency shifting control of its satellites this month.
August 16, 2022 -
The new director of the lab's Naval Center for Space Technology, Steven Meier, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio to talk more.
August 16, 2022 -
Everybody’s heard the term “space junk.” You’re probably aware there’s a bunch of it and that it’s a risk to satellites. The Space Force tracks tens of thousands of pieces of debris every day, but that’s only the big stuff. There are an estimated 100 million pieces of smaller bits — ten centimeters or less — that we can’t see from Earth with current technology.
August 16, 2022
