Defense
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n 2007, 75 percent of the Air Force\'s service contracts were awarded through competitive procurements. By last year, that had fallen to 59 percent.
March 16, 2012 -
The Defense Department has updated classification and declassification guidelines to help agencies determined what should be public knowledge, particularly when it comes to national security.
March 16, 2012 -
The U.S. in Afghanistan suffered two misfortunes Thursday. The Taliban broke off talks with the U.S., and President Hamid Karzai said NATO should pull out of rural areas and speed up the transfer of security responsibilities to Afghan forces nationwide in the wake of the killing of 16 civilians, by a U.S soldier. U.S. officials say there is no immediate plan to pull out of the villages.
March 16, 2012 -
The budget proposal House Republicans are planning to unveil next week will include provisions that would rescue the Defense Department from further budget cuts.
March 16, 2012 -
The Department of Navy is distributing a guide for hiring people with disabilities.
March 15, 2012 -
Gladys Commons, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, said the Navy hopes to have its Statement of Budgetary Resources audit-ready by the end of 2013, ahead of the Defense Department\'s deadline.
March 15, 2012 -
Jim Hagy, director the Defense Human Capital practice at Deloitte, talks to The Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the Defense Department can continue to achieve its mission in an ever changing world.
March 15, 2012 -
Lawmakers weigh public\'s right to know against the need to protect cyber secrets. Sen. Patrick Leahy\'s (D-Vt.) provision in 2012 Defense authorization bill tightens the definition of \"exemptions,\" but he questions the need for further rules to give agencies power to withhold information.
March 15, 2012 -
The service\'s CIO Terry Halvorsen said the goal is to bring together the purchasing power of the Navy and the Marines Corps to obtain lower prices. He said the Department of the Navy expects to save $100 million over five years. Navy senior officials from technology, acquisition and finance make the use of these enterprisewide contracts mandatory.
March 15, 2012 -
The top lawyer for U.S. Cyber Command, Air Force Col. Gary Brown, calls the Stuxnet attack the model of a responsibly conducted cyber attack. Catherine Lotrionte, the executive director of George Washington University\'s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss Stuxnet.
March 14, 2012 -
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that his committee\'s 2013 DoD authorization bill will undo Defense spending cuts the Pentagon has already proposed.
March 14, 2012 -
Even in the 21st century, it can still be awfully tough to vote in an election if you\'re thousands of miles from your local polling place. Making sure such voters can cast ballots in federal elections is the mission of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), a Defense Department office that offers assistance not just to military personnel, but to any U.S. citizen who needs help casting a ballot from overseas.
March 14, 2012 -
Rear Adm. Ted Carter, commander of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, spoke with Federal News Radio\'s Jared Serbu from the Atlantic Ocean as the carrier heads off for one last set of missions in Europe and the Middle East.
March 14, 2012 -
Federal investigators expressed concerns Monday for the safety of some female veterans who rely on homeless shelters after inspections showed women housed in shelters approved only for men.
March 14, 2012 -
Unless it\'s an emergency, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told Defense Secretary Leon Panetta he would block requests by the Defense Department for reprogramming requests to move money between budget accounts.
March 14, 2012