Defense
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The Defense Department’s top personnel official said Tuesday that the Pentagon used a flawed process when it decided to bar the nation’s largest for-profit college from military tuition assistance funds last year, and is drawing up new rules meant to be fairer to colleges while also ferreting out deceptive marketing processes.
November 30, 2016 -
Congress is doing away with Frank Kendall's position and is authorizing more troops for the services.
November 29, 2016 -
House Armed Services Committee Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Joe Heck confirms a 2.1 percent pay raise for troops.
November 29, 2016 -
Under a $2 million contract, Synack Government will use ethical hackers for penetration testing of IRS cybersecurity systems.
November 28, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is behind on its background security checks and retirement claims processing for fiscal 2016. In the agency's financial report, OPM acting Director Beth Cobert pledges a continued effort to make up the difference through a variety of efforts like new contracts and using electronic records.
November 28, 2016 -
Reports about the job security of NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers has several members of Congress up in arms.
November 28, 2016 -
The Defense Department has cited lower health care costs as one of the benefits of the $58 billion in contract awards it issued in July to manage its TRICARE health care system. But in at least one of the two contracts, price wasn’t the driving factor.
November 28, 2016 -
One military advocacy group is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to make military families' issues a top priority.
November 24, 2016 -
The Defense Department's $38.5 billion IT budget in the fiscal 2017 requests is being driven by three major trends contractors should be aware of: cybersecurity, cloud and analytics.
November 24, 2016 -
Army Secretary Eric Fanning warns against bumping up force size without proper funding.
November 23, 2016 -
The Defense Department expects to begin pilot programs to test out new IT authentication mechanisms shortly after the Christmas holiday, an early step toward eliminating the Common Access Card within the next two years.
November 23, 2016 -
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain called on Defense Secretary Ash Carter to refrain from making any last minute policy changes.
November 22, 2016 -
The Defense Department undertook a significant expansion of its new crowdsourced approach to cybersecurity Monday, opening its “Hack the Pentagon” challenge to literally anyone and providing them a legal route to report any security holes they find.
November 22, 2016 -
The Defense Department recently deployed systems to let banks and other lenders instantly check potential borrowers' military status at the same time as they’re checking their credit record.
November 21, 2016 -
Trump's defense transition team adds its 10th member. The landing team is heavily stocked with former military and defense industry representatives.
November 21, 2016