Navy
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The Department of the Navy is taking the lead in the military by allowing personnel to wear fitness devices such as a Fitbit or Nike Fuel Band. Naval officials said they want to promote a "culture of fitness" while preserving a secure and classified environment.
October 09, 2015 -
The crisis points in the Middle East and the South China Sea are coming at an inconvenient time for the Navy. It's experiencing a carrier gap. Retired Vice Adm. Peter Daly is CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute; former deputy commander and Chief of Staff of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and former commander of the Nimitz strike group. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to explain what the carrier gap is, why it's a problem and what the Navy and Congress can do to close it.
October 09, 2015 -
Retirement, benefits and pay were hot topics discussed by Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Bill Moran this week while speaking on the Navy’s All Hands Radio podcast.
October 09, 2015 -
The new Navy Cybersecurity division will be part of the headquarters staff, giving it reach both into the service’s resourcing decisions and its acquisition processes.
October 05, 2015 -
A new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found the Air Force's competition rate for service contracts dropped by 15 percent over the last six years, while other military services saw competition go up.
October 01, 2015 Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michelle Howard said cyber weapons are following a similar trajectory as nuclear weapons and for now need top command and control authorities to be used.
September 25, 2015-
The FBI, NARA and the Navy see turnover at the executive levels. The Navy gets a new director of information dominance who is allowed to look at classified data.
September 21, 2015 -
The Navy Sports Magazine Show features in-depth interviews and features on Navy's teams, athletes and coaches. The 30-minute show airs weekly from September to May.
September 11, 2015 -
Three key elements comprise the Navy's latest efforts to recognize innovation in the Navy and Marine Corps. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus listed modernizing cash awards programs, creating innovation awards and exploring non-traditional incentives to encourage innovation. Marine Corps Maj. Armando Martinez of the Office of Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the Navy's doing the awards program.
September 09, 2015 -
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Defense Department Comptroller Michael McCord sent a reprogramming request to Congress in July asking to move money around to help pay for identity protection and data breach services as well as higher costs for security clearance background investigations.
August 25, 2015 -
The Navy’s top officer says the Pentagon is fighting a congressional proposal that would dramatically reduce take-home pay for tens of thousands of service members by reducing their housing allowances.
August 19, 2015 -
The Navy’s top officer says the Pentagon is fighting a congressional proposal that would dramatically reduce take-home pay for tens of thousands of servicemembers by reducing their housing allowances. The details from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.
August 19, 2015 -
For people in, or going into the military, the benefits programs — while excellent in some cases — are a mystery. Many people don't realize that members of the uniformed military services are eligible for the government's long term care insurance program.
August 19, 2015 -
As part of the standup of four new Navy warfighting development centers, the Office of Naval Research seeks to insert the testing and prototyping of new technologies into the Navy’s regular training exercises.
August 14, 2015