Defense
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Three senior Air Force generals urged lawmakers to pass a complete budget, warning that another continuing resolution would have consequences for the Air Force so dire that all training missions would be grounded for two months.
April 03, 2017 -
In its annual assessment of DoD’s major weapons systems, GAO calculated that over the past year, the department has seen a $10.7 billion increase in its “buying power."
April 03, 2017 -
Senators grilled President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Air Force on Thursday over $450,000 in alleged improper payments her private consulting firm collected from Energy Department laboratories, but their questions and Heather Wilson’s answers did little to shed little additional light on the matter.
March 31, 2017 -
On this edition of Columbia Technology Partner's Ready to Prime, Allen Scott discusses the contracting landscape with two people who know it very well.
March 31, 2017 -
The Defense Department has carved a bug bounty path that civilian agencies can follow on their own, as long as they don't try to compare their results to the same level as DoD.
March 30, 2017 -
U.S. Transportation Command uses a lot of civilian businesses, but are their networks harming national security?
March 30, 2017 -
The Strategic Capabilities Office is one of the most lauded organizations in the Defense Department. The office is famous for taking military systems that do one thing and make them do something completely different. Its leader says his office doesn’t have to worry about acquisition requirements like the rest of the Pentagon establishment. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione fills in all the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 30, 2017 -
The Air Force's problem lies not in pilot recruitment, but rather retention. Meanwhile, the major airlines are enjoying a financial boom.
March 30, 2017 -
When the hiring freeze started there were about 8,500 vacancies across the Air Force and the service was taking on about 1,300 each month.
March 28, 2017 -
The Navy is in the midst of a revamp of its Innovation Cell, the project it launched two years ago with the objective of speeding new technology through the acquisition process in under a year while living completely within the government’s existing acquisition policies.
March 28, 2017 -
The Air Force alone is dealing with a shortage of more than 600 pilots. The service is having trouble competing with airlines that can pay pilots more.
March 27, 2017 -
The Defense Department also weighed in with some Medal of Honor stories, including that of the only female recipient, a doctor in the Civil War.
March 27, 2017 -
Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses what a 10 percent increase in defense funding would actually buy.
March 27, 2017 -
Retired Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, told House Homeland Security Committee members they should go further than just creating a new cyber agency within DHS.
March 27, 2017 -
DoD analysts and former officials are recommending direct hiring and pay authority over civilian Pentagon workers.
March 24, 2017