Defense
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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 -
The House Armed Services Committee is largely sticking with the Biden vision for the Defense Department next year, however, the 2023 Defense authorization bill still has a long way to go before it makes its way to the president’s desk.
June 21, 2022 -
When it comes to directed energy technologies like lasers and microwave weapons, the air force just doesn't have anything that's quite ready to deploy it on a fighter jet. But a new modeling and simulation facility at Kirtland Air Force Base is going to try to make sure pilots are ready to use them once they are.
June 21, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department wasted an estimated $5 million in a single year by buying items it already had in its inventory.
June 21, 2022 -
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is taking the lead on security clearance reform and expanding its new system of automated record checks.
June 20, 2022 -
The Defense Logistics Agency is working to grow an enterprise data management division within the office of its chief data and analytics officer, Lindsey Saul.
June 20, 2022 -
The House is sticking closely to the Biden budget and to appropriators but the Senate Armed Services Committee is feeling bolder in what it is approving in its legislation.
June 20, 2022 -
When the army awarded a major contract for communication support services in U.S. Central Command without explaining itself, the Court of Federal Claims ordered the army to go back and fix problems with the 2019 award decision.
June 17, 2022
