National & World Headlines
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What do buyouts at the Defense Department have in common with matsutake mushrooms? They are both very valuable and very rare.
September 22, 2017 -
The Air Force is still playing catch up in its pilot pipeline despite adding incentive benefits.
September 21, 2017 -
Daniel Payne, the director of the Defense Security Services, said the continuous evaluation program will have 1 million employees by 2018.
September 21, 2017 -
The contract, worth $1 billion over five years, goes to Dell, General Dynamics and Microsoft to run an Air Force implementation of Microsoft's Office 365.
September 21, 2017 -
The Air Force chief of staff says he's giving local commanders more discretion on crew resting periods. The broader point, he says, is to give wings and squadrons authority to run their missions without interference from headquarters.
September 20, 2017 -
U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers seems open to the idea of changing the leadership structure he currently heads.
September 19, 2017 -
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Services and West Virginia University are teaming up to take on opioid addiction.
September 19, 2017 -
The Navy knows it will need to spend more than $9 billion to renovate its shipyards to meet its current missions. But it hasn't planned for that expenditure, and the Government Accountability Office says it may be a lowball estimate.
September 19, 2017 -
The Navy says there is still no evidence that cyber attacks played a role in the service's two deadly collisions with commercial vessels, but there are several reasons it's continuing to pursue that thread.
September 19, 2017 -
Senate lawmakers let a third set of amendments to be added to the Defense Authorization bill, including the Modernizing Government Technology Act.
September 19, 2017 -
An interim policy released by the Defense Department keeps transgender troops in the military until a review is finished in February. Then it's up in the air.
September 18, 2017 -
Navy historians plan to survey the wreck of the USS San Diego, which sank in 1918. They hope to resolve the question of whether it was torpedoed by a German submarine.
September 18, 2017 -
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency says the idea is far from final, but is exploring the idea of trading decades' worth of its data to commercial firms in exchange for help with artificial intelligence and advanced computing algorithms.
September 15, 2017 -
House Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith doesn't see a way Congress can appropriate $700 billion to the military.
September 14, 2017 -
The Army is just a few weeks into what’s likely to be one of the largest tactical IT upgrades in its recent history.
September 14, 2017