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Frank Kendall, DoD’s undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, clarifies new rules about public funding as the Pentagon begins investing in Silicon Valley.
September 02, 2015 -
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Former Defense Department Comptroller Bob Hale wants Congress to learn from the past five years of budgetary turmoil. Congress has about 10 work days when it gets back from recess Sept. 8. – with no immediate sign of a budget deal for fiscal 2016.
September 02, 2015 -
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Susan Kelly introduced sweeping changes to the Defense Department's Transition Assistance Program, improving the transition of service members to civilian life.
September 02, 2015 -
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This week on Women of Washington, Eileen Sweeney, senior vice president and general manager of data management at Iron Mountain, discusses her work securely storing both digital and traditional paper files for the government and its contractors.
September 02, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management and Department of Defense have awarded a $133 million contract to help protect the personal information of people impacted by the cyber breach.
September 01, 2015 -
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Contractors, government relationship feeling the impact of cutting-edge technology, resulting in potentially cheaper and more efficient manufacturing.
September 01, 2015 -
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The Defense Department will test its new F-35 joint strike fighter against an aging A-10 Warthog starting in 2018. The Pentagon says it wants to see whether both jets can perform high-threat close air support. But Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh calls the testing a "silly exercise." Richard Aboulafia is vice president for analysis at the Teal Group Corporation. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what the F-35 can do that the A-10 can't.
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The Defense Department needs a 21st century security network that can handle a growing number of sophisticated threats. The Pentagon has already put a lot of work and resources into the Host-Based Security System. It's part of DoD's first coordinated departmentwide security system. Dan Goure is vice president of the Lexington Institute. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about a six-step strategy the Pentagon should pursue to build off the system it already has.
August 31, 2015 The Pentagon says its contribution for a new manufacturing institute dedicated to flexible electronics will be matched by $96 million in corporate and institutional funding. Officials say it could lead to a significant lightening of a soldier's loads and real-time damage reports from individual bulkheads aboard Navy ships.
August 31, 2015-
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The Defense Department's new rules for contractors to report cyber breaches could end up costing the military a lot more than it thinks.
August 31, 2015 -
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As part of the Pentagon’s effort to build cozier relationships with Silicon Valley, the Pentagon says it will become the largest investor in a new research symposium that hopes to create a new generation of electronic components. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more on DoD’s investment plan and what it hopes to achieve.
August 28, 2015 -
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The primary debate about the future of the Army right is how large or small it should be. But that's precisely the wrong debate given the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still going. Retired Army Lt. Gen. James Dubik is former commander of the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Iraq, and is now senior fellow at the Institute of Land Warfare at the Association of the Army. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that there are seven factors to consider before the war ends.
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The Pentagon has proposed base closures for the past four years, and Congress keeps saying no. Among the most costly defense activities is maintaining some 1,000 bases, camps and airfields around the world. How did DoD wind up with so many bases overseas in the first place? David Vine is an associate professor of anthropology at American University and author of "Base Nation: How Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some insight into how the military could rationalize some of this real estate.
August 28, 2015 Saturday marks the ten-year anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana. The Pentagon says in the decade since then, it’s made several changes that are intended to get Defense Department resources to local disaster zones within hours instead of days.
August 28, 2015
