Defense
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With the defense authorization bill poised for President Obama's signature, Federal News Radio looks at certain provisions that will impact federal workers.
November 11, 2015 -
Nearly 30 years after Congress passed the largest reform in DoD’s history via the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Senate is reopening the topic of Pentagon organization. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, Senators are hoping to build on the successes of Goldwater-Nichols and repair some of its unintended consequences.
November 11, 2015 -
Nearly 30 years after Congress passed the largest reform in Defense Department’s history via the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Senate on Tuesday reopened the topic of Pentagon organization in what may turn into another multi-year process of study and legislating over how the world's largest military force is managed.
November 11, 2015 -
Cyber breach victims who haven't yet received a notification letter from the Office of Personnel Management will soon have a place to check their status. Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert also called on agencies to fill cyber skill gaps with the same urgency as their response to the 30-day cyber sprint.
November 10, 2015 -
DISA’s multiple award IT contract, ENCORE III, will help small businesses keep their status even if they grow during the contract’s lifetime.
November 10, 2015 -
The U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its 240th birthday Tuesday, November 10. Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller honored the occasion with a cake-cutting ceremony at the Pentagon on Monday.
November 10, 2015 -
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton & Associates Inc., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item acquisition, contract duplication and the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. November 10, 2015
November 09, 2015 -
Defense companies have spent a low percentage of their own funds on research and development, creating what some say is an innovation problem.
November 09, 2015 -
The Army has developed a new scarf-like mask designed to protect against riot control agents. Currently users are forced to wear full general protective masks made of hard bulky materials. This one however would be as easy as putting on a surgical mask. Paul Gardner is a supervisory physiologist at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's Research and Technology Directorate. He is also the chief of the Respiratory Protection Division that developed the mask. He explains how the idea for this project got started.
November 09, 2015 -
The Defense Department released the first cybersecurity guidebook to implement a governmentwide risk management framework.
November 05, 2015 -
Real leadership development takes an agency that is willing to make the investment of time and money needed to build strong supervisors, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International.
November 05, 2015 -
Northrop Grumman is celebrating a huge win in the Long Range Strike Bomber competition and Boeing is considering a protest of the final decision. Jim Hasik, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told In Depth with Francis Rose there are still a lot of questions to answer about how much the planes will cost and how fast the Air Force really needs them.
November 04, 2015 -
President Barack Obama's administration continues to work toward his goal of U.S. energy independence by 2018. Meeting that goal may be good policy, but it may not be good military strategy. Lt. Cmdr. Scott Bennie of the Navy Reserve joined In Depth with Francis Rose on Pentagon Solutions. He explained the strategy problem in a piece for the U.S. Naval Institute. His views are his own and not the views of the Navy or the Naval Institute. He said walking away from our relationships with oil producing countries could leave us in a precarious situation militarily.
November 04, 2015 -
The Air Force is working on a rapid acquisition model that will be more conducive to open architectures.
November 04, 2015 -
Jason Workmaster, off counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item contracting. November 3, 2015
November 03, 2015