National & World Headlines
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The Air Force is planning to make payments to civilian employees to encourage them to leave the federal payroll, in addition to offers of early retirement. The service is trying to get to the level of civilian employment authorized under DoD\'s civilian hiring freeze, which mandates the department maintain its non-uniformed workforce at fiscal 2010 levels.
September 22, 2011 -
The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved, by a voice vote, the nomination of Ashton Carter to be deputy secretary of defense.
September 21, 2011 -
The aircraft has been grounded since May because of reports of a bad oxygen system.
September 21, 2011 -
The Army is reporting progress in cleaning up management of Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery was hit last year by a scandal revealing misidentified graves and a dysfunctional leadership team.
September 21, 2011 -
The service no can longer pump money into ambitions that don\'t offer any immediate prospect of payoff, especially if those projects don\'t promise to deliver something the Air Force truly needs, the service\'s top officer said Tuesday.
September 21, 2011 -
Government contractor CACI has landed a $33 million contract with the Navy\'s Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, The Washington Business Journal reports.
September 20, 2011 -
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Monday there are certain capabilities the service must keep whole as it navigates the current budget situation. He did not offer clues as to what the service would be willing to give up.
September 20, 2011 -
The military is in the market for a new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and a long range bomber.
September 19, 2011 -
The Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the Navy are turning to industry to try to leverage advanced technologies to produce a new generation of biofuels. A request for information they just issued says the private sector would have to match any federal funds the agencies spend. The three departments are willing to spend up to 500 million dollars to jumpstart an industry to produce fuels that could serve as drop-in replacements for jet fuel and diesel. The Navy is aiming to get half its energy from alternative sources by the year 2020.
September 19, 2011 -
AMC is offering $25,000 dollars to more than 30 civilian employees at its headquarters in Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, Federal Times reports.
September 19, 2011 -
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) joined the Federal Drive to discuss the end of the latest BRAC round. He said recent reports that the Mark Center in Virginia is vulnerable to truck bomb is just the latest in a series of headaches for the base realignment plan.
September 15, 2011 -
On today\'s Federal Drive: Lawmakers plan to promote structural reforms in the Homeland Security Department through its authorization bill and the Senate Armed Services Committee mulls the numbers of the top ranks of the Defense Department.
September 15, 2011 -
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained there were 30 layers of bureaucracy between him and an action officer. Despite reforms he led, a new report finds the ratio of generals and admirals to the troops they lead remains unprecedentedly high.
September 15, 2011 -
Katherine Hammack is the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy & Environment.
September 14, 2011 -
Pentagon found more than $800 million in Antideficiency Act violations from 2005 and 2008, but never reported these violations to Congress, lawmakers say.
September 14, 2011