Defense
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Kim Nazi is an analyst with the VA\'s Veterans and Consumers Health Informatics Office and a 2011 Service to America Medal finalist in the Citizen Services category.
August 09, 2011 -
The remains of the 30 U.S. troops killed when a Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan will arrive at Dover Air Force Base today, in what DoD calls a \"dignified transfer\" ceremony.
August 09, 2011 -
The Defense Department is not keeping up with the Department of Veterans Affairs in evaluating the disabilities of injured servicemembers, the Army\'s second highest ranking officer said Monday. The two agencies are working toward a joint system to reduce the evaluation time from 540 days to 295 days.
August 09, 2011 -
Now the Army is sending four Squad Mission Support System robot Jeeps to the country, where they will haul supplies for troops.
August 08, 2011 -
Diane Cochran has worked in the Departments of the Navy, Air Force, Energy, and the Office of Personnel Management, at a variety of locations in the continental United States and abroad. She shares what it\'s like to make the transition to working and living in D.C.
August 08, 2011 -
The Army plans to cut nearly 9,000 civilian jobs by October of next year, Federal Times reports. Army Secretary John McHugh ordered Army leaders to start cutting staffing as part of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates\' efficiency initiatives.
August 08, 2011 -
Jacques Gansler, the former undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and now a professor at the University of Maryland joined the Federal Drive to discuss how DoD can better balance its books without harming national security.
August 08, 2011 -
Captain Brad Cooper, the executive director of the Joining Forces Initiative, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the new veteran-hiring efforts.
August 08, 2011 -
President Barack Obama on Friday proposed tax credits and training programs to help thousands of U.S. service members returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan find jobs in the shaky economy at home.
August 08, 2011 -
On Today\'s Federal Drive: The effect of the S&P downgrade on federal agencies, GSA rethinks new pay-for-parking rule and the Army cuts civilian personnel.
August 08, 2011 -
Half the cuts will come from the Army\'s Installation Management Command -- that\'s almost 12 per cent of the total workforce at the command.
August 05, 2011 -
IBM has protested the Veterans Affairs Department\'s multi-billion dollar information technology contract, under the Transformation 21 Total Technology (T4) program.
August 05, 2011 -
Leon Panetta, in his first news conference as defense secretary, said a potential second round of Pentagon budget cutting, set up as a failsafe, by this week\'s debt-ceiling deal would be a doomsday scenario for the military. The additional $500 billion cut would be \"completely unacceptable,\" he added.
August 05, 2011 -
There is fact, and there is fiction, in defense spending under the debt deal says Winslow Wheeler, Director at the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
August 04, 2011 -
Marty Bollinger, senior vice president and director of aerospace and defense practice at Booz & Co. discusses the prospects for the Defense Department budget, the impact of the debt ceiling on industry and the implications U.S. debt will have on policy.
August 04, 2011