Defense
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Request for information covers maintenance of all joint staff networks and applications, and ensuring the network is secure through risk management mitigation, network vulnerability analysis and security auditing.
January 05, 2012 -
As the result of a successful effort to add the chairman of the National Guard Bureau to the membership of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Craig R. McKinley, the Guard\'s top officer, becomes the seventh member on the panel.
January 05, 2012 -
Bob Behn, a lecturer at Harvard University\'s John F. Kennedy School of Government, chairs the executive education program. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss going for the big goals. He cited efforts by the VA and HUD to end veterans\' homelessness as an example.
January 04, 2012 -
Prof. Gilliam Duvall, Dr. John Saunders and Dr. John Hurley of the National Defense University joined Pentagon Solutions with Francis Rose to discuss a cybersecurity workshop they hosted that focused on identifying and combating cyber threats.
January 04, 2012 -
Pressure is growing on agencies to draft formal succession plans. There\'s good reason to believe more feds retired in late 2011 than in recent years, although the final count is not yet out.
January 03, 2012 -
The Air Force has announced a second round of buyouts and early retirements affecting the service\'s civilian employees. Officials said the second round is part of the
January 03, 2012 -
Brand Niemann, a former data scientist at the EPA and now with the Semantic Community, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss his effort to consolidate DoD cybersecurity resources into a single dashboard.
January 03, 2012 -
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, posited on his blog that the Defense Department\'s soon-to-be-released budget cuts will almost certainly involve changes to its pay and benefits structure. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan.
January 03, 2012 -
Lynne E. Baldrighi will be the new director of HR strategic programs and advisory services, defense civilian personnel advisory services in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
January 03, 2012 -
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that despite proposed cuts, Pentagon will still be able to fight one major conflict at a time.
January 03, 2012 -
Emails appear to be coming from USAA, a financial services company specializing in military members. The messages contain a link to a file infected with the Zeus malware.
January 03, 2012 -
The news didn\'t stop for the holidays and neither did Federal News Radio. Get a head start on the new year by catching up on the big stories that you may have missed.
January 02, 2012 -
President Barack Obama has promised to end homelessness among veterans within three years. He\'s made it a high-priority goal, challenging agencies to meet it without additional resources or laws. Officials say they\'re on track thanks to a unique collaboration between two agencies and dozens of local partners is focusing on the toughest cases.
December 29, 2011 -
The Defense Department\'s Combat Feeding Directorate oversees the nutritional requirements and changing tastes of America\'s fighting force when designing its MREs, or meals ready-to-eat.
December 29, 2011 -
In a break from the Cold War mass-mobilization model, the Army is considering the Army Force Generation, or ARFOGEN, model as a way to find efficiency and savings in the equipping process.
December 28, 2011