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Women of Washington hosts Gigi Schumm and Aileen Black talk to Barbara Sisson, assistant chief of the Army Reserve.
Brad Carson has been nominated as the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, the White House announced Tuesday. Carson is already the department’s point man in identifying a broad series of personnel reforms.
The Defense Department’s new personnel chief has two months to go before he delivers a set of recommendations to overhaul DoD’s HR system. But he’s made clear that among his top priorities is to ensure longer tenures for military officers and that moving people from job to job every one or two years is a bad management strategy. Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu has the details.
More than 200,000 men and women leave the military every year. Many of them discover finding a job and transitioning to a civilian life can be difficult. DOD's newly redesigned Transition to Veterans Program aims to help former service members adjust to their new roles. Susan Kelly is the program director and spearheaded the program overhaul. For that, she was named one of the 33 Service to America Medal finalists. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the program redesign.
The Base Realignment and Closure controversy doesn't look different than it has the last few Congresses. The Defense Department wants another round of BRAC -- Congress says absolutely not. In this week's edition of Inside the DoD reporter's notebook, Jared Serbu writes about a group that you wouldn't expect would want another round of BRAC.
The Navy confirmed that everything is "all clear" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where many employees have been sheltering in place in response to an unconfirmed report this morning of a single gunshot heard.
Homeland Security and the Agriculture Department recently broke ground on a new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The Kansas-based facility is slated to open in 2022 and help USDA study animal-to-human diseases. Jamie Johnson, the director of the National Bio and Agro Defense Program at DHS, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the facility.
In this week's "Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook," the Pentagon’s newest cyber organization, Joint Force Headquarters-DoD Information Networks (JFHQ-DoDIN) is poised to take a key step in its maturation over the next several week.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Thursday that he’s appointed Eric Fanning to be the Army’s number-two civilian, at least in an acting capacity.
The law enforcement response to what turned out to have been a false alarm at the Washington Navy Yard last week was quite different than the actual active shooter situation in 2013.
The Association of Defense Communities recently surveyed its membership, asking whether they’d prefer another BRAC round to the current hand-wringing about when or if the military will realign its stateside infrastructure. 91 percent said they’d prefer another BRAC, while 8.6 percent prefer the status quo.
The Pentagon’s newest cyber organization is poised to take a key step in its maturation over the next several weeks as it branches out from Fort Meade and into three new branch offices designed to help defend DoD systems in various geographic areas.
U.S. Capitol Police gave the all clear at the Washington Navy Yard around 10 a.m. after an emergency call was made earlier in the morning about possible shots fired at the campus.
Soon the Pentagon and Google will be neighbors. The Defense Department is establishing a presence in Silicon Valley. The goal is to attract top tech talent to government work. Just taking that step might not be enough though. Peter Newell, former director of the Rapid Equipping Force at the Army and now managing partner at BMNT Partners, explains the challenges DoD will face on In Depth with Francis Rose.