Defense
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In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.
March 31, 2022 -
The $13.8 billion budget suggests getting a commercial icebreaker.
March 30, 2022 -
A simple competition for software licenses ended up in court after the losing bidder claimed a Procurement Integrity Act violation. At issue was a Navy-run competition to supply software licenses over five years under a blanket purchase agreement. Simple, but not trivial, with an estimated ceiling of $2.5 billion.
March 30, 2022 -
The awards to large cloud computing providers, originally expected by next month, will be delayed until December, the Defense Department said.
March 30, 2022 -
About 30,000 active duty service members in the last 20 years have died by suicide. Now DARPA seeks to prevent this by working upstream from conscious thoughts.
March 29, 2022 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress for a $773 billion budget in 2023, which it says is crucial to continuing its concept of “integrated deterrence” — using weapons in multiple domains to project power — as it continues to identify China as the main threat to the United States.
March 28, 2022 -
The Army will continue to decrease its active duty force to 473,000.
March 28, 2022 -
Space Force has begun moving from strategy to operation. The U.S. military’s first digital force is training guardians and establishing a digital lexicon. We learn more from Space Force’s Col. Charles Galbreath during a chat at the DoD Cloud Exchange.
March 25, 2022 -
The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
March 25, 2022 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center is prioritizing a cross-functional workforce as it looks to get the most out of a hybrid environment consisting of commercial cloud, on-premises cloud and data centers.
March 25, 2022 -
Through two big cloud initiatives — Cloud One and Platform One — the Air Force aims to establish secure hosting and development environments. We get the latest on both efforts from Air Force CTO Jay Bonci during the DoD Cloud Exchange.
March 25, 2022 -
When the pandemic struck, the Marine Corps put pedal to medal and accelerated its shift from on-premises to cloud operations. We get the details from the corps’ Renata Spinks at the DoD Cloud Exchange about how the service has embraced agility.
March 25, 2022 -
Navy CIO Aaron Weis shares the service’s digital transformation vision during the DoD Cloud Exchange. Virtual desktops and enterprise services ranging from Office 365 to identity management will help accelerate IT evolution in a DevSecOps world.
March 25, 2022 -
With the Army cloud office morphing into an agency, it aims to expand the service’s ability to use common tools anywhere. We talk with ECMA Director Paul Puckett at our DoD Cloud Exchange about how this strategy shift drives digital transformation.
March 25, 2022 -
Defense moves on from cloud for cloud’s sake to focus on pushing out services faster, more securely and further — to the tactical edge. We talk with the deputy CIO for information enterprise during our DoD Cloud Exchange 2022.
March 25, 2022
