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In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.
May 23, 2016 -
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Miranda Ballantine, the assistant secretary of the Air Force, joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm.
May 20, 2016 -
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DISA says it's moving away from acquisition and toward operations, still its SETI contract will be awarded as a best value contract to much fanfare.
May 20, 2016 -
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The Navy has formed a temporary organization to gather information and investigate a path toward interoperability and integration for its systems.
May 20, 2016 -
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A cyber attack can do real damage to both computer systems and infrastructure controlled by computer. But would it constitute and act of war?
May 20, 2016 -
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Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) will offer an amendment to stop cuts to the Army and increase the defense budget when the NDAA goes to the floor next week.
May 19, 2016 -
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The Navy is in the very early stages of a program that aims to overhaul and replace more than 100 systems and applications which currently handle ship maintenance, many of which date to the 1960s.
May 19, 2016 -
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The Navy said it wants to look outside the box for new solutions to its challenges with cybersecurity and embedded platform systems. Navy Deputy CIO Janice Haith said the service will launch a contest later this month to solicit ideas from its own workforce on getting rid of or modernizing outdated, tactical systems.
May 19, 2016 -
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Sometimes the government has really, really specific requirements it puts out for bids. For example, if it needs left-handed forklift operators, you can't bid right-handed ones. Or left-handed front-end loader operators. The Air Force and a company called All World Language Consultants didn't quite follow that policy. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 19, 2016 -
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Navy has asked for legislative permission to start some new sailors' careers at higher ranks. Some with high levels of in-demand skills would potentially start at the level of captain.
May 18, 2016 -
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter takes umbrage with two specific provisions in the 2017 defense authorization bills.
May 18, 2016 -
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The Navy is trying to “revolutionize” the meals it feeds its sailors, both ashore and while they’re underway. To do that, they turned to sailors themselves, and to academia, using the “design thinking process” to help shape the future of the Navy's chow. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Lt. Cmdr. Keith Capper, director of the Navy Food Service, and Jennifer Person-Whippo, a dietician in the Navy Supply Systems Command, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 18, 2016 -
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The Defense Department plans to have 133 cyber mission teams at full operational capability by the end of 2018. Of those, 40 are in the Navy. But the Navy says achieving that milestone would take a team effort. It’s not just a mission for the 10th Fleet, its cyber command. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the 10th fleet, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 18, 2016 -
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From fighters to carriers to submarines, the Navy wants to network its weapons systems so their warfighting capability is greater than the sum of its parts. That task falls to Rear Adm. Michael Manazir, who was appointed just last week as the deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems. Before that, he was director of the Navy’s Air Warfare Division. Manazir spoke on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 18, 2016
