National & World Headlines
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The Defense Department is requesting $575 billion in its base budget, a $52 billion increase from last year to help increase readiness.
May 23, 2017 -
The Air Force is getting about 5,000 visitors a day on its site created to aggregate ideas on how to better squadrons.
May 22, 2017 -
Industry and lawmakers generally like the bill, but think it might need to be fleshed out a little more.
May 19, 2017 -
Lawmakers are pushing key Defense Department nominees to begin considering how to put a comprehensive cyber policy in place.
May 18, 2017 -
The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairwoman says her subcommittee is working toward President Donald Trump's requested budget.
May 18, 2017 -
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