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The Defense Department is attempting to empower its female employees and service members by officially supporting Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit group Lean In.
The DoD is unlike any government agency, which means Defense's Office of Inspector General is not quite like every other OIG. Jon Rymer, the man who holds that office, tells In Depth's Francis Rose what makes his office unique.
Defense Department Inspector General Jon Rymer tells In Depth's Francis Rose why his office is so different from other OIGs.
The Defense Department has been expanding the degree to which it incorporates cyberspace into its thinking about what it means to conduct modern warfare. Now it’s using old-fashioned accountability mechanisms to secure its networks. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, cyber defense will play a role in whether a military unit is deemed ready to deploy. And if it’s not, its commander will be held accountable.
U.S. Cyber Command hopes to increase the defensive posture of its networks by imposing more accountability on commanders. Future scorecards will grade local installations. Those with failing grades may face sanctions.
In this week's Inside the Reporter's Notebook, as the Office of Management and Budget finalizes new FISMA metrics for 2016, agencies and IGs continue to struggle with a disconnect over risk versus compliance.
The FBI, NARA and the Navy see turnover at the executive levels. The Navy gets a new director of information dominance who is allowed to look at classified data.
The Joint IT Single Service Provider-Pentagon is moving toward full operational capability and the lessons from the effort will influence similar efforts in the future.
Federal workers are toiling in tough conditions. Even department heads, like Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, bemoan the system for managing civilians.
Undersecretary of the Army Eric Fanning has been nominated by the president to serve as Army Secretary.
In a recent memo Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall gives milestone decision authority of some programs to the military service secretaries.
On Wednesday, DISA released a request for information as it prepares to migrate its Enterprise Email service to a commercially-hosted cloud and telling industry that it wants the new solution to beat the current system's costs by 50 percent.
Gen. Herbert Carlisle says his troops are burnt out and his resources can barely cover the global demand. Carlisle becomes the third senior DoD official this week to highlight the need for Congress to pass a budget and not allow cuts from sequestration to return.
The Pentagon has already signaled its intent to move its massive enterprise email service to a privately-operated, commercially-based cloud environment. This week, DoD officially kicked off the planning process for a procurement that will affect more than one and a half million users. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.