Defense
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Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the National Counterintelligence Executive, said the lead agencies reforming the security clearance process made subtle, but important changes to how investigators check employees’ backgrounds.
February 01, 2017 -
Defense Secretary James Mattis laid out plans for the next six years in a Feb. 1 memo.
February 01, 2017 -
In November, when Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel records were vulnerable to theft by hackers via the…
February 01, 2017 -
Although the governmentwide hiring freeze President Donald Trump ordered last week was mainly meant to shrink the federal workforce through gradual, voluntary attrition, it could result in an untold number of unexpected dismissals for Defense workers in charge of repairing and "resetting" military equipment.
February 01, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office stated the two services did not implement human capital strategies that could have helped alleviate the drone pilot short fall.
January 31, 2017 -
When your organization consists of thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individuals, managing the workforce becomes a challenge. For the U.S. armed services, the fundamental question is how to know which troops are available for a given mission or operation.
January 31, 2017 -
The Defense Department has been trying to get a clear sense from the White House about what it wants and does not want in the overseas contingency operations (OCO) budget. But the last administration's budget office left those decisions for the new administration. So now what?
January 31, 2017 -
Jeff Neal, the former chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department, breaks down the Pentagon's recently released new rules for reduction in force.
January 31, 2017 -
The Navy is trying to instill character and creativity in its sailors with a new leadership program.
January 30, 2017 -
President Trump on Friday ordered the Pentagon to immediately set about the work of figuring out how much money the Defense Department will need to overcome what military leaders have said are serious readiness problems brought on by years of political deadlock over the federal budget.
January 30, 2017 -
The National Military Families Association wants an increase in family support if end strength numbers rise.
January 27, 2017 -
Amy Schafer, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, says the Budget Control Act is putting Marine Corps aviators' lives in danger. They've experienced a spike in training accidents. Schafer tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin how budget constraints affect Marine pilots.
January 27, 2017 -
The House Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat said Thursday that he plans to reintroduce legislation that would allow the Defense Department to conduct a new round of base realignments and closures (BRAC).
January 27, 2017 -
President Trump's pick to head the Air Force is highly qualified, but some experts think her business connections are dubious.
January 26, 2017 -
Thus far, President Donald Trump’s promise to reduce the size of the federal workforce only involves attrition, not layoffs. But if things escalate to actual reductions in force, Pentagon employees with poor performance ratings will be the first to go.
January 26, 2017