National & World Headlines
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Federal cyber professionals are worried about vague language in proposed changes to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement or DFARS, according to a new surveyfrom CTOVision.com.
September 02, 2011 -
More than $2 billion as been paid — so far — to Vietnam veterans and their survivors who filed claims related to Agent Orange, after the VA last summer added to the list of diseases thought to be related to exposure.
September 02, 2011 -
A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.
September 02, 2011 -
Stan Soloway is the former deputy undersecretary of defense.
September 01, 2011 -
The Obama administration and the Defense Department said Wednesday they are making progress in reforming contracting in overseas contingency operations. An independent commission found the government has lost up to $60 billion to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan.
September 01, 2011 -
After 70 years of the USO thanking the troops for their service, the military is now thanking the USO for its support.
September 01, 2011 -
Bob Henke, a member of the wartime contracting commission who previously served as DoD comptroller, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the commission\'s recommendations. Henke shared his perspective of what the government and DoD need to do to stem the tide of waste and fraud in contingency contracting.
September 01, 2011 -
The Missouri Democrat said the Pentagon needs to hire and improve training of contracting officers. She said the $31 billion in waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan should be a wake-up call for Congress to better fund the acquisition workforce.
August 31, 2011 -
Military widows and spouses of disabled veterans will be able to take all the time they need to apply for federal jobs under a special hiring exemption. The current two-year limit on spouses\' noncompetitive hiring authority expires at the end of September.
August 31, 2011 -
Two of the eight members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan join In Depth to explain the recommendations in the commission\'s final report.
August 31, 2011 -
Dr. Walter Koroshetz, the deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH, joined the Federal Drive to discuss efforts at creating a traumatic brain injury database to improve treatment options.
August 31, 2011 -
will be sworn in as the nation\'s spy chief on September 6th, less than a week before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks
August 31, 2011 -
The Defense Department must spend $37 million to expand the Bethesda military hospital\'s overloaded power grid, after a substation at the National Institutes of Health reached capacity.
August 31, 2011 -
On today\'s Federal Drive: OPM announced that despite the weak economy, agency incentive payments to recruit and retain workers actually increased. Plus, the Commission on Wartime Contracting releases its final report and the head of the ATF bureau steps down after a controversial gun-loan program comes to light.
August 31, 2011 -
The Departments of the Navy, Agriculture and Energy are asking industry how best to spend $510 million on the future of biofuels. They are leaning on a 1950 law that lets the government pour cash into defense-critical industries.
August 31, 2011