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The Army\'s largest post saw a record number of soldiers kill themselves in 2010 despite a mental health effort aimed at reversing the trend.
Camelina biofuel has broken the sound barrier. Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy tells us why that\'s important.
A new program covering the dependents of TRICARE beneficiaries up to age 26 will not be ready for a formal roll-out for several more months, but one of the program\'s top officials said they intend to make the new coverage retroactive to Jan. 1.
A ten percent DoD budget cut can be done, says Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O\'Hanlon.
Small Wars Journal\'s Robert Haddick outlines the top three resolutions he has suggested for the Defense Department.
The House is planning a 2012 budget that will cut spending to below 2008 levels, Reuters reports. Also, a budget plan for the remainder of the current 2011 fiscal year would trim $60 billion —…
No evidence that U.S drones were shot down in the Persian Gulf. That\'s the word from the Pentagon. But Iran is claiming that it took out two Western drones in the Gulf. Reuters reports, the last time a U.S. drone crashed in the Gulf was in 2009 after a mechanical failure. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan says there are \"no recent reports that would corroborate what the Revolutionary Guard said about unmanned aerial vehicles.\"
The Navy awarded two different companies two separate contracts to build the same ship. Lockheed Martin\'s Vice President of Business Development of Lockheed Martin\'s Mission Systems and Sensors business explains the science behind their ship
Lyle Eesley, director of the Learning Center of Excellence for Service Acquisition at DAU, joins the Federal Drive with more information on the Service Acquisition Mall (SAM)
Bill Welser, co-author of \"Confronting Space Debris\" from RAND Corporation joins the Federal Drive with information on how DARPA and RAND are trying to clean the solar system
The move is part of a larger transition from SSN use
An informal working group reviewed 61 methodologies in the private sector for measuring the lifecycle cost of products. DoD\'s goal is to incorporate such a total cost of ownership approach for all products. The Pentagon eventually could make the process a standard.
The Defense Department continues to scrub service members\' social security numbers from public DoD websites. The armed services plan to transition to an alternative ID number system by 2012.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said his efforts to limit parking at the Alexandria administrative center were not part of the new defense authorization bill.