Defense
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The Air Force is asking airmen to log in online to comment, share and vote on ideas that will better its squadron units. The crowdsourcing initiative is part of a larger push started by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein to fundamentally change the service.
May 15, 2017 -
Amy Eastman, director of fundraising for Objective Zero, discusses a new mobile app aimed at eliminated veterans' suicides.
May 15, 2017 -
The more bitter the arguments over the federal budget become on Capitol Hill, the more members might resort to anything. Especially if the Trump administration refuses to spend money it didn't want appropriated in the first place.
May 15, 2017 -
The Cloud Center of Excellence this week will release a draft best practices guide that will give agency contracting officers, chief information officers and CFOs a new way of thinking about and buying cloud services.
May 15, 2017 -
The House Armed Services Committee is expected to release its first version of the 2018 Defense Authorization bill this week and in it many observers predict provisions to make it easier for the military to buy commercial items.
May 15, 2017 -
The Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) participated in Vibrant Response 17 over the last month in an effort to better prepare for a whole of nation response to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack or accident.
May 12, 2017 -
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are rehashing some controversial personnel reform ideas from the Obama administration.
May 12, 2017 -
The Defense Department has acquired a few hundred copies of its F-35 joint strike fighter and there's more in the 2017 budget. But the development phase of the expensive aircraft actually has not ended. In fact, this phase hasn't stopped slipping further into the future — 17 years after it started. The latest look-see from the Government Accountability Office details the implications. Michael Sullivan, director of acquisition and sourcing issues at GAO, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 12, 2017 -
Flashbacks can often be scarey, reminders of things we want to forget, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's recent visit to Fort Belvoir triggered a magic blast from the past.
May 12, 2017 -
The Marine Corps updated its separation policy in wake of the Marines United scandal.
May 11, 2017 -
The Contractor Performance Assessment Reports System (CPARS) is one of the Defense Department's most potent weapons for dealing with poor performing companies. But sometimes contracting officers make erroneous judgments and enter them into CPARS. Then what? Contractors can sue. But procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that even if they win the case, they don't really win.
May 11, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, DoD's inspector general found the department complied with only one of the six requirements of the act by reporting improper payment rates of less than 10 percent.
May 11, 2017 -
Butch Luckie, the Air Force’s chief of IT business analytics, said the service is doing a better job capturing software and hardware asset data to help make better buying decisions.
May 11, 2017 -
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) laid the weight of DoD's first audit squarely on the shoulders of David Norquist, President Trump's pick for DoD comptroller. The department hasn't been audited in 17 years, and has spent the past seven engaged in audit-readiness preparations.
May 10, 2017 -
The new chairman and ranking member of the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee tell Federal News Radio what they are thinking for the next NDAA.
May 09, 2017