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Officials say a fugitive Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” at the center of a Navy bribery scandal was trying to head to Russia before Venezuelan authorities captured him.
The newly elevated command is working with service leaders to bolster risk mitigation.
The Defense Department was not the only agency shifting control of its satellites this month.
The new director of the lab's Naval Center for Space Technology, Steven Meier, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio to talk more.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, murdered Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's family files a $35 million lawsuit, and GSA is offering some new help to agencies to improve cybersecurity.
Innovation challenges are becoming a popular way for the military to bring in new ideas.
The military has a recruiting problem. That fact has been on display in the past couple months as all of the military services bolster enlistment bonuses and reevaluate their end strength goals for 2022 and 2022.
Experts estimated around 20,000 people are assaulted in the military each year. The Army, Navy and Air Force are implementing new policies aimed at reducing assaults.
In Federal Drive host Tom Temin's final interview of this week's series on naval oceanography, he talks with the Mine Warfare Center's commanding officer, Commander Matthew Watts.
Commander Angela Francis is commanding officer of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to tell us more about her job.
This week the Federal Drive is exploring the activities under the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. For details about his work in Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Oceanography Antisubmarine Warfare Center's Commander Christopher Tuggle joined the program.
Large and heavy as they might be, the Navy's ships are affected by weather. Operations and planning depend on knowing what the weather will bring.
Naval Air Station Oceana hosted a graduation ceremony for eight interns who were part of Project SEARCH, a program connecting high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to internships and on-the-job training.
The U.S. Marine Corps has halted water operations for its new amphibious combat vehicles while it investigates why two of the seafaring tanks ran into trouble off Southern California's coast this week amid high surf