Defense
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A major Defense Department initiative to protect the military services’ computer networks with a shared system of regionalized cybersecurity centers will face new scrutiny in 2017, both from Congress and from the department’s inspector general.
December 29, 2016 -
The Air Force will implement a new civilian evaluation system next spring to increase communication between supervisors and employees.
December 28, 2016 -
A sailor from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group greets his baby girl as part of a holiday homecoming.
December 27, 2016 -
Federal employees and contractors waited hundreds of days in some cases for a security clearance in 2016, but the Office of Personnel Management spent much of the year putting the policy pieces in place for improvement. Key stakeholders in the Performance Accountability Council developed an IT plan for the new background investigation system and issued business rules for adjudicating some cases.
December 27, 2016 -
The Air Force awarded a $31 million contract to review more than 100 command and control systems for cyber vulnerabilities.
December 27, 2016 -
The crew of the International Space Station sends a holiday message, sailors from the USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group return home and the Interior Department shows off some of its big trees.
December 26, 2016 -
The 2017 defense authorization bill increases the amount DoD workers get for leaving their jobs by $15,000. The bill, signed into law by President Obama on Friday, provides up to $40,000 in retirement incentives for eligible civilian employees.
December 26, 2016 -
The Marine Corps is rolling out a system that allows service members in the field to pinpoint enemies for fire support.
December 23, 2016 -
The defense budget is constantly going through ups and downs. Congress is still trying to figure out the numbers for 2017. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how this year wrapped up and what’s in store for next year.
December 22, 2016 -
A group of defense organizations are crying foul over a new rule that cracks down on how companies can portray research funds given to them by the the Pentagon.
December 21, 2016 -
Many veterans groups are hoping President-elect Donald Trump won’t name a new Veterans Affairs secretary, instead, leaving secretary Bob McDonald in his post for at least another couple years. Twenty military and veteran associations have just written to Trump’s transition team, arguing that McDonald’s reform agenda has just started to take hold, and now would be a particularly bad time to install new leadership. Bill Rausch, an Army veteran and the executive director of one of those groups, Got Your Six, provides insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 21, 2016 -
Viola's nomination was out of the blue, but experts say that might work to his advantage. Outsiders can create an opportunity for change through new perspectives.
December 20, 2016 -
A replacement for Air Force One made headlines recently. But the Air Force is dealing with multiple platforms that are aging and due for upgrades or replacement. Many of them belong to the Air Force. Maj. Gen. Mike Fortney, vice commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a survey of what needs modernizing.
December 20, 2016 -
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the key acquisition-related provisions in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. December 20, 2016
December 19, 2016 -
Meagan Metzger, founder of Dcode42, sat down with Erwin Godoy, the Chief Innovation Strategist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Enterprise Innovation Office, to discuss why the tech world has barely scratched the surface of its full potential with the federal government, and what can be done to bring the two sides closer together.
December 19, 2016