Defense
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The Defense Department has made a push in recent years to invest more in cybersecurity. DoD's third offset strategy aims to bring the U.S. military into the future. And soon the President’s Fiscal 2017 budget request, which is set to come out in February, will reveal some of DoD’s third offset cyber plans. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione talks about DoD's cyber priorities with Dynamic Technology Solutions executive vice president for cybersecurity and intelligence, and retired Navy Adm. Norman Hayes.
January 14, 2016 -
Air Force says it is "patching and mending" its existing facilities, but the approach isn't a long-term solution.
January 14, 2016 -
DoD's forthcoming update to enterprise email is likely to include several other business collaboration tools, and will be rebranded as the "Defense Office Automation Service."
January 13, 2016 -
Why is a government reduction in force like giving yourself a haircut? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says both should be options of last resort with Band-Aids at the ready.
January 13, 2016 -
Personnel issues dominated the Defense Department over the last couple of weeks. Reductions in force for the Air Force and security clearance backlogs for contractors were the bugaboos. For details, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to with Federal News Radio's DoD reporte. Jared Serbu.
January 12, 2016 -
The Department of the Navy will soon announce the creation of a new rapid acquisition office whose mission will be translate emerging technologies into actual weapons systems much more quickly than the Navy and Marines can do today. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Read Jared's related story.
January 11, 2016 -
The Defense Department can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it.
January 11, 2016 -
Commodities, the stock market and the Chinese economy might all be stalling. But there is one bright spot — worldwide military spending. U.S. defense spending is leading the way, but it's not alone. Budgets are rising in several other major countries too. It's all detailed in a survey just released by Deloitte. Tom Captain, vice chairman and U.S. and Global Aerospace and Defense sector leader at Deloitte, Joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some of the numbers and what they mean to contractors.
January 11, 2016 -
The Senate IT working group is circulating a discussion draft of a cloud bill to improve FedRAMP and create a new fund at GSA to help pay for cloud transitions.
January 11, 2016 -
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
January 11, 2016 -
Beginning on Dec. 8, the Defense Security Service all but ceased its processing of personnel security investigation requests for government contractors, and by the time things were up and running again on Jan. 5, a new backlog of approximately 10,000 cases had built up.
January 11, 2016 -
The Air Force said last week that it has about 1,000 civilian “overages” across all of its major commands, and needs to use reduction in force (RIF) authorities to eliminate those positions.
January 11, 2016 -
We like to call attention to significant departures or additions to government service in this space. There were several of them over the past week
January 11, 2016 -
When the first Pulsar came out at $500, no one knew it would be nearly free in a couple of years. Now we know better.
January 08, 2016 -
Navy officials told lawmakers facilities sustainment cuts have hurt personnel services and building modernization efforts.
January 08, 2016