Defense
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The service brought together high-ranking Navy officials, enlisted sailors, think tank experts, non-governmental organizations, industry and legislative aides to participate in a tabletop exercise focused on responding to a climate event.
June 29, 2022 -
Even as the armed forces develop hypersonic missiles, the Missile Defense Agency pursues a project to develop measures to counteract enemies' hypersonics. But the program is having significant oversight problems and technical risks.
June 29, 2022 -
GAO legal opinion says the appointment of Sean O'Donnell to be acting DoD IG violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act twice: once under President Trump, and again under President Biden.
June 28, 2022 -
DoD and the Air Force are currently considering 11 schools to lead the center.
June 28, 2022 -
The House Armed Services committee spent time last week marking up the defense authorization bill for 2023. As always, the NDAA has a lot to say about procurement and contractors. But it doesn't say anything about whether they're compensated for inflation.
June 28, 2022 -
The Defense Department’s Defense Contract Management Agency is staffing up to prepare for assessments under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program in 2023 and beyond.
June 27, 2022 -
The Air Force Radioactive Recycling and Disposal Team handles low-level radioactive recycling and low-level mixed waste management in the Air Force and provides radioactive material recycling for the entire Defense Department.
June 27, 2022 -
Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers haven't yet gotten the mandated COVID-19 vaccine
June 25, 2022 -
The Department of the Navy is creating identity services to support organizations and users across the Navy and Marine Corps — but also that will integrate with zero trust efforts across DoD. We talk to a trio of leaders focused on this work during the Zero Trust Cyber Exchange.
June 24, 2022 -
By leaning into the DevSecOps path already paved by Platform One, the Air Force’s zero trust team intends to pilot and then scale out zero trust across the service. We talk with the service’s Raju Ranjan and Capt. Christopher Kodama during the Zero Trust Cyber Exchange.
June 24, 2022 -
Holly Ridings, the first female chief of NASA's flight directors, will now lead the agency's Gateway program and international partnership to establish humanity's first space station around the moon.
June 23, 2022 -
There are a lot of reasons behind maintenance delays in the Navy's shipyards. But one, only recently uncovered, is that most of the supplies artisans need to do their jobs aren't on hand when the work starts.
June 23, 2022 -
GAO says it seen some improvement and DOD is management of major acquisitions, but the cost and schedule growth are still big problems. And while every program is unique, one common theme is that DOD tends to commit itself to big systems before it has enough information about technology risks and cost estimates,
June 22, 2022 -
The federal government has world class engineering expertise in its ranks. The same is true of public health expertise. What it does not have is a standing capability to fuse those two disciplines together with behavioral science to help inform agency's response to crises, at least until now. A brand new organization called the Engineering for Public Health and Human Factors Center or EPH is now up and running within the Army Corps of Engineers.
June 22, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department is delaying the launch of its EHR in certain areas, while the Defense Department's is moving right along.
June 22, 2022
