Defense
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Transgender service members may now serve openly and will be able to receive medical care relating to transgender issues.
June 30, 2016 -
Agencies are meeting an administration goal to cut the number of federal employees and contractors who need security clearances for their jobs. But the intelligence community is still struggling to process security clearance investigations more quickly.
June 30, 2016 -
NSA Director of Information Assurance Curtis Dukes thinks identity theft was the reason for the OPM hacks. But regardless of their purpose, he says the breaches highlight a need for both industry and agencies to get up to speed to defend against smarter and more sophisticated enemies.
June 30, 2016 -
The Senate confirmed a new head of the Navy's Fleet Cyber Command and new chief of staff of the Air Force.
June 30, 2016 -
Joint Base Andrews says a "misidentification" of security forces carrying out a routine inspection of the base may have set off false alarms of an active shooter
June 30, 2016 -
The Bipartisan Policy Center is forming a task force to tackle the tough military personnel issues.
June 29, 2016 -
One of DoD's top policy civilians marched in a gay pride parade this past weekend. It was more than just a walk.
June 28, 2016 -
Jack Midgley, executive officer, Defense and Social Infrastructure, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co. Ltd., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the company's 2016 Global Defense Outlook. June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016 -
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is doubling the amount of contractors competing to provide financial management consultation for the TSP.
June 28, 2016 -
This week, Pentagon solutions looks at how the Defense Department is trying to tackle insider threats within the contract space. Also, what's congress doing to address the bid protest problem?
June 28, 2016 -
Now that Congress looks poised to reject the Defense Department’s requests for another round of base realignments and closures (BRAC) for a fifth year in a row, the Air Force has decided to start its own process to calculate how valuable each of its bases actually are to the various missions it performs.
June 24, 2016 -
The Defense Department is still searching for a solid answer on how it will respond to a cyber attack on U.S. infrastructure.
June 23, 2016 -
Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley wants brigades that can pivot from training U.S. partners to training new recruits in a catastrophic situation.
June 23, 2016 -
Veteran preference is in the news again, with new legislation proposing new limits. Former Homeland Security Chief Human Capital Officer Jeff Neal says that's a big deal, becausey veteran preference is a kind of third rail of civil service reform.
June 23, 2016 -
Silicon Valley technology company Palantir plans to sue the Army, claiming that the military service has shown bias against off-the-shelf products in its solicitation for a $206 million intelligence IT contract.
June 22, 2016