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Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have called on Senate appropriations leadership to stop implementing a Defense Department policy that has cut travel reimbursement since Nov. 2014.
DHS plans to release a new terror alert system after its previous system failed to keep citizens informed of threats.
Experts say the Defense Department needs to create more flexible career paths that cater to the specialized operations forces the department relies on more now. But decades old laws, like the Defense Officers Personnel Management…
Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, said he's got the numbers. They show his Better Buying Power initiatives are working. Kendall said annual contract costs have declined since the reforms were put into place. Even so, he said DoD is still facing a $17 billion shortfall for fiscal 2017. Multiple defense officials have said modernization will take a hit in order to make up for the loss in funds. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione shared the latest on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The last barrier for women in the military has been removed. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said women in any of the armed services could soon serve in any of the combat responsibilities. The move raises a lot of questions. How will it affect readiness? Combat effectiveness? Logistics? For some possible scenarios, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to retired Army Lt. General David Barno, now a scholar-in-resident at American University.
The Defense Department says the cybersecurity verification center had intermittent outages during the first three days it went online. DoD says it has fixed the problems.
The Pentagon bolsters its plea for $1 trillion in nuclear modernization funds as the weapons age and funding is limited.
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
A newly-disclosed report makes clear that security managers at the Washington Navy Yard had tried to point out at least some security deficiencies well in advance of the September 2013 shootings.
When it comes to mental application, men don't have it over women. Only today's training and the ultimate goal matter.
Defense Department spending rises every year, even after sequestration. But the fighting force is shrinking. In effect, DoD is doing less with more. Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro, head of the Punaro Group, has been saying on Capitol Hill that Congress and the Pentagon need to tackle their built-in costs. The DOD Comptroller recently said the department would get 96 percent of what it asked for in 2017. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Punaro if that's a useful metric.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said "no exceptions" when ordering the military services to open all of their combat specialties to women, effective 30 days from now. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu shares the details with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The decision opens up 214,000 military billets to female service members, and also makes them subject to involuntary assignment to previously-closed combat roles. Congress says it will examine whether women should also be required to register as potential draftees.
A group of former and current federal executives advise against making the mobility provisions in the executive order to reform the Senior Executive Service too narrow.