Defense

  • A program designed to help severely wounded veterans get life-long care isn\'t working the way it should.

    March 24, 2011
  • Revised boundries for the Walter Reed campus have been announced.

    March 24, 2011
  • Retired General Howie Chandler, the former Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, talks with Federal News Radio about Libya, the so-called Arab Spring, and the outcome of the Tanker Refueling contract.

    March 24, 2011
  • David Dowd, Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, discusses the new competition requirements agencies must follow when placing orders exceeding $150,000. March 22, 2011

    March 23, 2011
  • A new call center, staffed by professionals trained to handle grieving callers, is among the first technology upgrades the Army has made in the aftermath of a management scandal at Arlington National Cemetery last year. Phase two will involve tackling the massive challenge of digitizing the cemetery\'s paper records.

    March 23, 2011
  • Female veterans still face significant frustration getting medical care, even in Veterans Affairs facilities with female-specific services.

    March 23, 2011
  • Gen. Keith Alexander has outlined a series of next steps to be pursued by the six-month-old U.S. Cyber Command.

    March 23, 2011
  • The Department of Veterans Affairs, which processed a record one million claims in 2010, is still seeing claims come in faster than it can process them and expects even more new filings in 2011. Despite that, VA hopes to eliminate its backlog of claims by 2015.

    March 23, 2011
  • The idea is to treat cyberspace as a domain within DoD and employ active cyber defenses and other new defense approaches.

    March 22, 2011
  • Language, protocol and cultural barriers can still get in the way of disaster relief even if the countries are allies. Col. Dino Pick, Commandant for the Defense Language Institute, tells us about his unit\'s efforts to overcome that.

    March 22, 2011
  • The Marine Corps is going green to save lives rather than to save the planet.

    March 22, 2011
  • The Department of Defense is working with private developers to create a system that automatically detects and prevent network intrusions.

    March 22, 2011
  • Just when it looked like federal workers have hit rock bottom, it turns out that two big chunks of the government family may be in for some good news. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there may be pay raises for some postal workers and the return of the COLA for retirees.

    March 22, 2011
  • Al Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for last week\'s car bomb attack on an Iraqi army unit that killed at least eight soldiers The bomb targeted an army headquarters in the northern area of Diyala province. 30 others were wounded when it exploded last Monday. Security forces stopped a second attack and defused a car bomb parked at the scene. The attacks in Iraq are a daily occurrence as insurgence continue to attack Iraqi forces knowing that U.S. troops are leaving Iraq totally at the end of this year.

    March 21, 2011
  • It doesn\'t necessarily take a disaster or cyber attack to knock out a terrestrial communications network—a simple construction error or backhoe cut can do it. A diverse-path, satellite backup solution to a primary landline network is essential to ensure Continuity-of-Operations, or COOP, to keep defense networks running, no matter the situation. National Programs must have a COOP back-up for broadband connections with inherent security functions to protect voice, video, and data transmissions. Hughes defense solutions meet U.S. TRANSEC and FIPS 140-2 Security Level 2 standards for secure, global connectivity wherever your mission may take you. Hughes has the technologies and experience to deliver the right COOP solutions on time and on budget.

    March 21, 2011