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The White House listed 20 pages worth of qualms with the Senate 2017 defense authorization bill, including military health care reforms, acquisition policy changes and personnel tweaks.
A Bahrain owned company also saw a increases in government contracting, while GE and Verizon lost federal business.
The highly publicized alcohol ban, dutifully reported by every outlet in the world, strikes me as theatrical.
The Defense Department shot down a recommendation to reduce basic housing allowance for dual military couples.
Veterans, troops and citizens attend events to remember those who fought on D-Day and in the Invasion of Normandy.
Steve Blank teaches Hacking for Defense, a new course at Stanford University that links students with defense agencies to promote innovation in engineering.
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.
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.”
DoD declined millions in savings to make sure dual military families continued getting current BAH funds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Air Force has increased Boeing's contract to replenish its inventory of guidance kits that convert unguided "dumb bombs" into smart munitions.