The Senate Armed Services chairman says he'll withhold acquisition approvals from DoD programs unless the department completes its first financial audit.
Agencies and organizations must protect their water facilities, heating and air conditioning, and electrical grids.
The Army and Navy both said on Thursday that their contributions to U.S. Cyber Command's Cyber Mission Force had achieved full operational capability, a year ahead of the timeline DoD set for the military services.
For the Navy, much of the innovation has come from the Office of Naval Research. Now the ONR is starting to use so-called lean innovation process.
Despite having a plan for a chief data officer, the Navy is dragging its feet on implementing it.
The Navy has to figure out how to harness, organize and deliver its data to users before it can start utilizing that data for decision making.
The Navy plans to release a draft RFP for an enterprise cloud contract by the end of 2017, saying most systems — including secret ones — will move to the cloud.
The Defense Department is making some changes to meet its readiness challenges, but it needs more support from Congress and civilian government.
The Navy says it's writing the next version of its Next Generation Enterprise Network contract so that it can offload email and other services to DISA's forthcoming commercial offering for unified communications, whenever it becomes available.
The Navy is implementing new guidance to require protected sleep hours for sailors on ships.
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.
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.
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.
In today's Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report says the Navy's shipyards are in such bad shape they can no longer meet the service's operational needs.
Navy knew it was "accepting risks" at least two years ago when it decided to press ahead with more demanding forward deployments in the Asia-Pacific, despite downward slide of routine maintenance and training.