National & World Headlines
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Amid a new push to "accelerate" commercial cloud adoption, the Defense Department is in talks with commercial industry to find ways to smooth its cloud security approval process.
October 19, 2017 -
The defense secretary gave Congress a list of grievances regarding the 2018 defense authorization bill.
October 18, 2017 -
The Air Force is creating a blanket charter based on its RCO that will help acquisition programs move faster.
October 18, 2017 -
After years of shrinking the force, the Army is suddenly in growth mode again, creating new challenges for recruiters.
October 18, 2017 -
Even assuming an active-duty force that's significantly larger than the one that exists today, the Pentagon says it has 19 percent more facilities than it can use.
October 18, 2017 -
A handful of states plus the District of Columbia say their residents will be harmed by the military transgender ban.
October 17, 2017 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviewed Army leaders on a variety of topics at the recent 2017 Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington, D.C.
October 17, 2017 -
The Army hasn’t achieved a number like that in the past 20 years without violating DoD’s quality standards.
October 17, 2017 -
To combat the Army's nondeployability problem, the service wants to add deployment pay and cut tuition assistance for non-deployable soldiers.
October 16, 2017 -
Cyber attacks travel at the speed of light and nothing the military has can keep up, least of all the acquisition process.
October 16, 2017 -
John Zangardi, the acting DoD chief information officer, signed a memo outlining a new process for securing mission-critical mobile apps.
October 16, 2017 -
The Defense Department and Army are changing the way they hire and train acquisition professionals.
October 13, 2017 -
The Army Materiel Command is working with its vast supply chain to tighten things up in a methodology known as prepositioning.
October 13, 2017 -
U.S. Army Africa is helping to bolster American interests there, without having a whole lot of soldiers to do it.
October 13, 2017 -
U.S. Army North has a short roster of permanent billets, but it has big leverage when help is needed, like with hurricane cleanup in Puerto Rico.
October 12, 2017