Navy
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The Navy's expansion of unmanned systems follows experimentation work it's been conducting in the Middle East, where it's combined drones with sensors connected together in a resilient mesh network.
April 05, 2023 -
The Defense Department wants to expand its budget for mental health care, and the services are starting new programs to prevent harmful behavior.
March 31, 2023 -
The Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act — the PACT Act — became law a few months ago. It brought an expansion of services available to veterans and drew more veterans into eligibility.
March 23, 2023 -
Pentagon heads look to pair acquisition and technology to advance their future capabilities.
March 17, 2023 -
The Department of the Navy pushed out Tom Sasala, the department’s highly-respected CDO since October 2019, leaving it without defined leadership and potentially overwhelming its data organization.
February 22, 2023 -
The small but potent Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has reached its stride, as it enters its eighth year in business. The DIU uses a technique known as "other transaction authority" to quickly get new technology prototypes built for military purposes.
February 21, 2023 -
Aaron Weis, the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer, wrote to staff that his last day is March 17.
February 21, 2023 -
For the military, nothing much happens without good requirements. Vic Steinman is the air warfare requirements coordinator for the Navy. His work earned him a Defense Acquisition Workforce Award.
February 06, 2023 -
Navy ships are getting fewer steaming hours because of growing maintenance delays and costs, a troubling trend that comes as at time when the U.S. is struggling to keep pace with China’s growing fleet. Operating and support costs grew by about $2.5 billion across 10 ship classes while the number of propulsion hours in which ships were operating or training dipped during a 10-year period that ended in 2021. That is according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. The Navy saw increased maintenance delays, breakdowns and cannibalization of parts — moving them from one ship to keep another one going — during the period.
February 03, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Hawaiian company will help the Navy find community-based solutions to reuse the Red Hill fuel storage facility on Oahu.
February 02, 2023 -
FEMA brings back a familiar face to be its new CIO while HHS, the Navy and GSA fill key technology leadership roles.
February 01, 2023 -
For various reasons, defense contractors have quite a bit of Defense Department property in their possession. But DoD can only guesstimate how much it's all worth.
February 01, 2023 -
The new leader of Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works said he's been rejuvenated by a shift from his former aerospace job to building ships.
December 27, 2022 -
U.S. armed forces operate at sea, on land, and in the air. The one place they all operate in: cyberspace. Now the Navy has issued what it called a cyberspace superiority vision. It has three principles: secure, survive, and strike.
December 13, 2022 -
Can robots teach themselves new tricks? In theory they can, according to researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In a new white paper, they lay out how robots, like people, can learn by using a curriculum and a learning agenda.
November 30, 2022