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Neither drones nor autonomous ships, unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, will form an important part of the Navy’s strategy of expanding its fleet in a way that’s lower cost, relative to manned ships, and more agile.
Defense agencies have utilized strategies to address attack vectors and build a workforce that can block ransomware as the federal government transitions toward storing its data in the cloud.
To date, thousands of families have been displaced by jet fuel in drinking water.
Over the past few years, the Pentagon has spent $8 billion on contractors to supply planes and pilots to play enemy. Now those contracts are under review.
A U.S. Navy warship remains in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, with about two dozen sailors — or nearly a quarter of its crew — testing positive for COVID-19, according to U.S. defense officials
Some 500 colleges and universities host Reserve Office Training Corps programs. The Navy Federal Credit Union has expanded its scholarship program to include all of them.
The Omicron variant is showing some vaccine resistant properties that the booster could help resolve.
The advisor positions were created two years ago, but they're just now starting to make their mark on the military services' cyberspace budgets and force designs.
The Navy was successful in vaccinating a high number of its active duty sailors before the Nov. 28 deadline, with 97.2% of troops getting at least one dose.
The Navy and Marine Corps both hit their deadlines for active duty service members to be fully vaccinated on Nov. 28. While the Navy got more than 99% of its sailors inoculated, the Marine Corps has the distinction of being the least vaccinated force.
Who should be exempted by their employers from a vaccine mandate? In the case of active duty military members, it's not so clear.
While they are supposed to takeover some menial tasks and do some jobs better than actual employees, DoD personnel leadership doesn’t see it making an impact on how many civilian workers the Pentagon maintains. At least not yet.
DoD wants all of its civilians to get the shot and go through the required waiting period for antibodies to flourish by Nov. 22.
Jimmy Smith, the director of the Office of Small Business programs for the Department of the Navy, said the service awarded more than $17 billion in prime contracts to small firms in fiscal 2021.