National & World Headlines
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House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) calls for the Pentagon to enter into private commercial marketplaces.
May 18, 2017 -
Soldiers might be Army strong, but the same cannot necessarily be said about the buildings they work in. The service is facing a nearly eleven billion dollar tag to get its facilities and installations fixed. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione was joined by Randy Robinson, acting assistant secretary of the army for installations, energy and environment, and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham, assistant chief of staff for installations management, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the issue further.
May 17, 2017 -
The Section 809 Panel, tasked by Congress to streamline defense acquisition, is giving its initial recommendations just one day before a major acquisition reform bill goes public.
May 17, 2017 -
The Air Force is asking airmen to log in online to comment, share and vote on ideas that will better its squadron units. The crowdsourcing initiative is part of a larger push started by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein to fundamentally change the service.
May 15, 2017 -
Amy Eastman, director of fundraising for Objective Zero, discusses a new mobile app aimed at eliminated veterans' suicides.
May 15, 2017 -
The more bitter the arguments over the federal budget become on Capitol Hill, the more members might resort to anything. Especially if the Trump administration refuses to spend money it didn't want appropriated in the first place.
May 15, 2017 -
The Cloud Center of Excellence this week will release a draft best practices guide that will give agency contracting officers, chief information officers and CFOs a new way of thinking about and buying cloud services.
May 15, 2017 -
The House Armed Services Committee is expected to release its first version of the 2018 Defense Authorization bill this week and in it many observers predict provisions to make it easier for the military to buy commercial items.
May 15, 2017 -
The Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) participated in Vibrant Response 17 over the last month in an effort to better prepare for a whole of nation response to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack or accident.
May 12, 2017 -
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are rehashing some controversial personnel reform ideas from the Obama administration.
May 12, 2017 -
The Defense Department has acquired a few hundred copies of its F-35 joint strike fighter and there's more in the 2017 budget. But the development phase of the expensive aircraft actually has not ended. In fact, this phase hasn't stopped slipping further into the future — 17 years after it started. The latest look-see from the Government Accountability Office details the implications. Michael Sullivan, director of acquisition and sourcing issues at GAO, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 12, 2017 -
Flashbacks can often be scarey, reminders of things we want to forget, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's recent visit to Fort Belvoir triggered a magic blast from the past.
May 12, 2017 -
The Marine Corps updated its separation policy in wake of the Marines United scandal.
May 11, 2017 -
The Contractor Performance Assessment Reports System (CPARS) is one of the Defense Department's most potent weapons for dealing with poor performing companies. But sometimes contracting officers make erroneous judgments and enter them into CPARS. Then what? Contractors can sue. But procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that even if they win the case, they don't really win.
May 11, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, DoD's inspector general found the department complied with only one of the six requirements of the act by reporting improper payment rates of less than 10 percent.
May 11, 2017