Defense
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter hosts an Armed Forces full honor review farewell ceremony in honor of Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the United States.
January 05, 2017 -
When the Defense Department recently awarded two giant contracts to manage health care services, it had smooth sailing in spite of protests. That's a marked contrast from five years ago when several awards were overturned on protest. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on how they managed things in 2016.
January 05, 2017 -
With the the chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board resigning in less than a week, employees appealing their disciplinary actions will have to be patient as they wait for President-elect Donald Trump to appoint at least one member for a quorum.
January 04, 2017 -
As military financial literacy continues to fall, Suze Orman is stepping in to offer her services to troops.
January 04, 2017 -
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it expects to reach final decisions by July on each of the more than 17,000 cases in which soldiers were paid large bonuses to re-enlist during the heights of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only to be told years later that they must give the money back.
January 04, 2017 -
U.S. Cyber Command is creating a 10 person team to handle the $75 million a year it will have for acquisition.
January 03, 2017 -
Comments were due last week on a Defense Department rule concerning government use of unclassified contractor information. It may have been mistletoe and egg-nog time, but that didn't prevent the Professional Services Council from weighing in. Alan Chvotkin, PSC's executive vice president and counsel, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
January 03, 2017 -
Those new super buyouts worth $40,000 are now in effect and Mike Causey says they could benefit younger feds too.
January 03, 2017 -
One of the main tenets of the Pentagon's Better Buying Power initiative is changing procurement for the better.
January 02, 2017 -
Meagan Metzger, founder of Dcode42, continued her discussion Erwin Godoy, the Chief Innovation Strategist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Enterprise Innovation Office, talking about how the technology industry and the federal government can work together toward common goals.
January 02, 2017 -
President-elect Donald Trump watched four F-35s fly over the Army-Navy Game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Forty-eight hours later, he fired off a tweet that would cost the company that built the F-35 nearly $4 billion.
January 02, 2017 -
Jeff Neal, the former DHS chief human capital officer, shares his most widely-read column of 2016, which is sadly still timely.
December 30, 2016 -
Guest columnist Ken Gold examines how President-elect Donald Trump will build up the armed forces, reduce the deficit and cut taxes, as he promised.
December 30, 2016 -
The Air Force is selecting its biggest class ever to participate in the Career Intermission Program.
December 29, 2016 -
2016 has been an eventful year in the defense end of things for military members, civilians and contractors. Federal News Radio's Deputy Editor Jared Serbu joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a review of some of the most-read DoD related stories.
December 29, 2016