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Congress wants two reports on enterprise email: one from the Army that is due by Jan. 31 and another from DoD CIO Teri Takai by June. Army deputy CIO Mike Krieger said the requirement for a report caused the service to delay the program for 30 days and would push back the final migration date to at least mid-May.
January 09, 2012 -
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little says the United States will still be able to conduct more than a single war at one time.
January 09, 2012 -
Last year the Defense Department spent almost $4 million looking for Agent Orange in South Korea. However, the department didn\'t find anything. The investigation began after former soldier Steve House claimed he buried Agent Orange there more than 30 years ago.
January 06, 2012 -
Every individual VA hospital now has its own page as part of the department\'s expanding social media presence. Brandon Friedman, VA\'s director of online communications, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the new, personalized social media initiative.
January 06, 2012 -
The service hires eight vendors to provide private cloud computing services.
January 06, 2012 -
Plans would reduce ground forces while bolstering sea and air power to counter perceived threat from Asia and Western Pacific.
January 06, 2012 -
Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, unveiled the results of an eight-month defense strategy review that is intended to guide decisions on cutting hundreds of billions from planned Pentagon spending over the coming decade. But the eight-page document contained no details about how broad concepts for reshaping the military will translate into troop or weapons cuts.
January 06, 2012 -
The President and the Pentagon gave the rough outlines Thursday for how they plan to create a lean, but still effective military. Ground forces will shrink, capabilities in cyber, ISR, technology will grow.
January 06, 2012 -
Rudy DeLeon, the former deputy defense secretary, told In Depth with Francis Rose the new strategy and the key ideas behind did not come out of the blue. \"This has been coming for a while,\" he said, including the possibility of military pay and benefits being on the table.
January 05, 2012 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted approval for Android-based mobile devices to connect to DoD networks, provided they\'re secured using a specific set of guidelines
January 05, 2012 -
The Pentagon chief says the U.S. will have to make some tradeoffs and take some extra risks under the new military strategy laid out to absorb federal budget cuts.
January 05, 2012 -
Two provisions in the 2012 Defense Authorization Bill directly impact defense contractors. One applies a contractor pay cap to all contract employees, and the other puts more responsibility on contractors to stop counterfeit electronic parts.
January 05, 2012 -
In this edition of On DoD, we take a look back at one of the key events that made the military we have today what it is. 2011 was the 25th anniversary of the Goldwater-Nichols act. We marked the anniversary on Federal News Radio with a special series on how the major Defense reorganization made its way through Congress, and how lawmakers dragged the Pentagon, largely against its will, into a culture of jointness.
January 05, 2012 -
President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief the media today on their strategy for a slimmed-down DoD.
January 05, 2012 -
Defense Appropriations Bill signed by President Obama gives the Defense Department the ability to conduct cyber attacks.
January 05, 2012