Defense
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When the Navy raised up the sunken Civil War Confederate submarine Hunley back in 2000, it put a spotlight on the Naval History and Heritage Command. That was back in 2000. Principal Investigator Robert Neyland provides Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update on the Hunley and the command.
March 16, 2017 -
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said proposed budget reductions for agencies such as EPA or HUD are based on the administration’s goals and priorities, and leaders at those agencies will be able to decide how best to address smaller budgets.
March 16, 2017 -
House Armed Services Committee aides say they want to keep a close eye on the personnel reforms put in place by the 2017 NDAA.
March 15, 2017 -
The Army says it has established a new, streamlined process to approve exemptions from President Donald Trump’s governmentwide hiring freeze, and has now approved about 20,000 new civilian hires, up from just 5,500 waivers the service had issued as of a week ago.
March 15, 2017 -
The Inspectors General nominations that have been withdrawn include the ones for the Office of Personnel Management, the Defense Department, and the Social Security Administration.
March 14, 2017 -
The Navy is implementing its leadership framework, just as the Marine Corps photo scandal is getting bigger.
March 14, 2017 -
If you added them all together, the K-12 schools operated by the Defense Department would be one of the nation's biggest districts. That's just one of the services available elsewhere that maybe the military ought to get out of.
March 13, 2017 -
Last week's news of Facebook accounts to which member of the Marine Corps posted compromising photos of their female colleagues prompted a response from Commandant Robert Neller. Kate Hendricks Thomas, a Marine Corps veteran and now assistant professor at Charleston Southern University, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin top leadership is where the end of sexual harassment has to start.
March 13, 2017 -
The Defense Department hit a major milestone a few weeks ago, bringing its new electronic health record system online at its first facility. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu visited Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington to talk with clinicians and Defense health officials about how the new system, MHS Genesis, is working so far. He filed this report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 13, 2017 -
The federal inspectors general community has an opportunity, as the federal hiring freeze and other resources continue to tighten, to share administrative and mission areas services.
March 13, 2017 -
The Marine Corps is creating a Marine Expeditionary Force for information warfare, cyber and intelligence.
March 10, 2017 -
A cadre of 33 Republicans appealed to the House Budget Committee to up the 2018 defense budget to $640 billion.
March 09, 2017 -
Of the Army’s buildings, 22 percent now meet the Defense Department’s criteria for “poor” or “failing” condition. The service faces a backlog of $10.8 billion in deferred maintenance projects.
March 09, 2017 -
Top military service officials President Trump's federal hiring freeze is causing problems for those in the military.
March 08, 2017 -
Technology installations could help military bases, but is the funding there?
March 07, 2017