Defense
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Veterans, troops and citizens attend events to remember those who fought on D-Day and in the Invasion of Normandy.
June 06, 2016 -
Steve Blank teaches Hacking for Defense, a new course at Stanford University that links students with defense agencies to promote innovation in engineering.
June 06, 2016 -
The Army is a few weeks away from an experiment that aims to tackle the “use it or lose it” phenomenon that manifests itself at the end of each fiscal year in almost every government office.
June 06, 2016 -
The Navy’s top cyber commander says her service needs to spend the next one thinking about a broad array of new activities that fall under the general heading of “procedural compliance.”
June 06, 2016 -
DoD declined millions in savings to make sure dual military families continued getting current BAH funds.
June 03, 2016 -
Navy Secretary says the maritime services haven't devoted much attention to nuclear as a shore-side "alternative" energy option thus far, but it's time to start.
June 02, 2016 -
The Army is tightening retention policy, which will lead to 3,000 noncommissioned officers leaving the service. A new directive returns retention control points to their pre-2007 levels. The soldiers are forced to retire or go to the reserve or National Guard components.
June 02, 2016 -
The policy package the House Armed Services Committee's Defense bill includes several measures meant to address hazing. Congress and the Government Accountability Office both say DoD hasn’t done enough to track and punish behavior that crosses the line between rites of passage and downright cruelty. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) is the prime sponsor of the legislation. Her nephew, Harry Lew, took his own life after abuse by fellow Marines. She tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the military’s first step should be to come up with a common definition of hazing.
June 02, 2016 -
Sailors, Marines and civilians from Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) and its commands and subordinate units are competing in the Surface Line Week (SLW) 2016 Challenge from May 31 until June 3 at Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
June 02, 2016 -
The Air Force has increased Boeing's contract to replenish its inventory of guidance kits that convert unguided "dumb bombs" into smart munitions.
June 02, 2016 -
Four training regimens between now and 2018 are meant to communicate the impacts of the new retirement system at all levels of the military.
June 02, 2016 -
Service members with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury cannot separated be from the service without those conditions being taken into consideration, even in cases of misconduct.
June 01, 2016 -
The Army is adding more migration teams as it moves more of its networks to the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS). Other services will follow soon suit, said David Cotton, DoD's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise.
June 01, 2016 -
The Senate wants DoD to handle its own security clearances by 2018.
June 01, 2016 -
President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. render honors during a Memorial Day address held at Arlington National Cemetery.
June 01, 2016