Navy

Photos of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things happening in the defense community.

A recent Government Accountability Office award protest decision seemed to establish a new rule for how contract negotiations are conducted.

The White House plans on spending 5 percent more to secure federal networks and data in 2020, with more than half of the funding going toward Defense Department cybersecurity. Get this story and others in today’s Federal Newscast.

An assessment commissioned by the Secretary of the Navy returned a stinging assessment of the Navy Department’s cybersecurity posture.

The $750 billion defense budget request for 2020 asked Congress for almost $104 billion for its research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) fund.

A hair-raising report to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was leaked, and it presents a grim picture of America’s cybersecurity threat.

The Navy’s plan to eliminate its assistant secretary for installations in favor of a new assistant secretary for IT turned out to be untenable, in light of recent revelations about substandard military housing.

The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors, or PALS, has been going for a year and Larry Tender with the Naval Research Laboratory joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for an update.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Army, Navy and Air Force said they’re establishing a “tenant’s bill of rights” to help military members deal with cases of substandard on-base housing.

The Navy wants vendors to prototype an entirely new network architecture that would give its users more direct pathways to the cloud services.

The Air Force is aligning its business practices with the National Defense Strategy to stay ahead of near-peer competitors over the next two years.

In today’s Federal Newscast, more than 17 years after Pentagon’s most expensive weapons acquisition first started, the Navy said its version of the F-35 is ready for combat.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the National Treasury Employees Union asked the Office of Personnel Management when federal employees can expect to see the 1.9 percent pay raise recently signed into law.

In response to rats, mold and lead paint in housing, military services are conducting checks and inspections for families.