Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. says he plans to do his part to respond to congressional criticism over ballooning bureaucracies at the Pentagon.
In Monday's Federal Headlines, the Department of Homeland Security’s former chief says he doesn't have confidence in the government's ability to screen and vet Syrian refugees looking to enter the U.S.
This photo gallery shows how U.S. Navy personnel and their families are celebrating the holiday season at home and abroad.
Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
Navy identified dozens of systems due to transition to new consolidated data centers, but are still at risk for failing to comply with DoD cyber regulations
The number-two civilian jobs in all three military departments are vacant for the moment. But the Senate could vote as soon as next month to confirm new undersecretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, the nominees say their top priorities will be restoring military readiness and shrinking their departments’ headquarters staffs.
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Navy to cut back on capacity and invest more in capability in a letter last week.
Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talk to retired Rear Adm. Janice Hamby, chancellor of the National Defense University, about women in leadership.
Based on the work of two study groups, the Pentagon is likely to ask Congress to revise two key statutes underlying its personnel management system for military officers: the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act.
A newly-disclosed report makes clear that security managers at the Washington Navy Yard had tried to point out at least some security deficiencies well in advance of the September 2013 shootings.
Speed matters, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates stomped and hollered when MRAPs weren't there during the height of the Iraq war, by golly, DoD found a contractor to build them in march time.
Anthony Kurta, deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy, said the Defense Department is beginning to overcome institutional barriers to change as it implements initial reforms in Secretary Ash Carter's "Force of the Future" plan.
Back in March, the Navy said it would test a new IT acquisition process called the innovation cell. Its purpose: to evaluate, buy and insert new commercial technologies onto its networks within the space of one year. It appears to have worked. The Navy made its first awards under the Innovation Cell framework yesterday. Victor Gavin is the Navy's program executive officer for enterprise information systems, and Dan DelGrosso is the PEO-EIS technical director. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they talked with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu about the awards, and what the Navy has learned from the process so far. Gavin speaks first.