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• Five things you should know about the Defense bill

  With the defense authorization bill poised for President Obama's signature, Federal News Radio looks at certain provisions that will impact federal workers.

  Congress

  November 11, 2015
• Jared Serbu: Senate eyes largest DoD reorganization in 30 years

  Nearly 30 years after Congress passed the largest reform in DoD’s history via the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Senate is reopening the topic of Pentagon organization. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, Senators are hoping to build on the successes of Goldwater-Nichols and repair some of its unintended consequences.

  Federal Drive

  November 11, 2015
• 30 years after Goldwater-Nichols, Senate eyes another DoD reorganization

  Nearly 30 years after Congress passed the largest reform in Defense Department’s history via the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Senate on Tuesday reopened the topic of Pentagon organization in what may turn into another multi-year process of study and legislating over how the world's largest military force is managed.

  Defense

  November 11, 2015
• OPM to make it easier for feds to verify cyber breach status

  Cyber breach victims who haven't yet received a notification letter from the Office of Personnel Management will soon have a place to check their status. Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert also called on agencies to fill cyber skill gaps with the same urgency as their response to the 30-day cyber sprint.

  Workforce

  November 10, 2015
• Large DISA contract is coming sooner than expected

  DISA’s multiple award IT contract, ENCORE III, will help small businesses keep their status even if they grow during the contract’s lifetime.

  Acquisition

  November 10, 2015
• Semper Fi! Marine Corps celebrates its 240th birthday

  The U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its 240th birthday Tuesday, November 10. Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert B. Neller honored the occasion with a cake-cutting ceremony at the Pentagon on Monday.

  Defense News

  November 10, 2015
• Acquisition policy and the NDAA

  Jon Etherton, president of Etherton & Associates Inc., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item acquisition, contract duplication and the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. November 10, 2015

  Off the Shelf

  November 09, 2015
• DoD’s Kendall wants more research spending from industry

  Defense companies have spent a low percentage of their own funds on research and development, creating what some say is an innovation problem.

  Defense

  November 09, 2015
• Paul Gardner: Army develops scarf-life protective masks

  The Army has developed a new scarf-like mask designed to protect against riot control agents. Currently users are forced to wear full general protective masks made of hard bulky materials. This one however would be as easy as putting on a surgical mask. Paul Gardner is a supervisory physiologist at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's Research and Technology Directorate. He is also the chief of the Respiratory Protection Division that developed the mask. He explains how the idea for this project got started.

  Federal Drive

  November 09, 2015
• DoD gives how-to guide for decreasing cyber risk in programs

  The Defense Department released the first cybersecurity guidebook to implement a governmentwide risk management framework.

  Acquisition Policy

  November 05, 2015
• Leading by example

  Real leadership development takes an agency that is willing to make the investment of time and money needed to build strong supervisors, says Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International.

  Commentary

  November 05, 2015
• Jim Hasik: What’s next for Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber

  Northrop Grumman is celebrating a huge win in the Long Range Strike Bomber competition and Boeing is considering a protest of the final decision. Jim Hasik, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told In Depth with Francis Rose there are still a lot of questions to answer about how much the planes will cost and how fast the Air Force really needs them.

  All News

  November 04, 2015
• Lt. Cmdr. Scott Bennie: Is energy independence a poor military strategy?

  President Barack Obama's administration continues to work toward his goal of U.S. energy independence by 2018. Meeting that goal may be good policy, but it may not be good military strategy. Lt. Cmdr. Scott Bennie of the Navy Reserve joined In Depth with Francis Rose on Pentagon Solutions. He explained the strategy problem in a piece for the U.S. Naval Institute. His views are his own and not the views of the Navy or the Naval Institute. He said walking away from our relationships with oil producing countries could leave us in a precarious situation militarily.

  All News

  November 04, 2015
• Air Force finalizing acquisition process for open architecture

  The Air Force is working on a rapid acquisition model that will be more conducive to open architectures.

  Acquisition

  November 04, 2015