National & World Headlines
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Military and Defense Department employees will see some big changes to retirement and prescription drug copays starting next year.
December 20, 2017 -
Lawmakers and military analysts weigh in on the most important personnel and readiness issues for 2018.
December 19, 2017 -
Military households will only see a $10 increase on average in basic allowance for housing pay.
December 19, 2017 -
The Defense Department has several tests planned for 2018 for different biometric modalities.
December 18, 2017 -
A new analysis of DoD contract data shows serious impacts across the Defense industrial base because of spending cuts, including indications that thousands of firms exited the industry entirely.
December 18, 2017 -
After two years of trouble, the National Guard is still hurting for cyber troops.
December 14, 2017 -
Acknowledging years of frustrations, the Army says 2018 is the "year of delivery" for its electronic warfare force, which is about to be subsumed into its cyber branch.
December 14, 2017 -
Like NFL players, service members are vulnerable to head injuries that may cause long-term damage.
December 13, 2017 -
How do audits improve the overall readiness of the Department of Defense’s mission capabilities? Find out this week on Off the Shelf when host Roger Waldron discusses the issue with a team of Booz Allen subject matter experts. December 12, 2017
December 12, 2017 -
The Army is beginning its first experiment in fast-tracking the officer accession pipeline for civilians with cyber skills. But it's proceeding cautiously: only five new officers per year.
December 12, 2017 -
Borrowing from an existing exemption for foreign military sales, DoD wants more flexibility to waive its requirement for vendors to supply cost and pricing data in domestic procurements.
December 12, 2017 -
New leaders in Defense Department IT: Essye Miller is named acting DoD CIO and Rear Adm. Nancy Norton will be DISA director.
December 12, 2017 -
The D.C. District Court struck down a request by the Defense Department to delay the accession of transgender people into the military.
December 11, 2017 -
The National Academy of Public Administration has just completed a review of MARAD and has several recommendations for improving management.
December 11, 2017 -
New data from Bloomberg Government shows agencies spent more than $1.8 billion on cloud services last year.
December 11, 2017