On DoD
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The Navy is giving its commanders discretion on whether to require some training.
September 17, 2018 -
The Air Force is giving its installations more of a say in violence prevention.
September 17, 2018 -
Air Force secretary Heather Wilson said the service needs 74 additional squadrons in order to meet the missions it's been assigned under the new national defense strategy.
September 17, 2018 -
Federal contractors are deeply concerned about the Pentagon’s move to the cloud and Federal News Radio asked why.
September 17, 2018 -
The Air Force is continuing the trend of other transactional authorities to speed up the procurement process, says Bloomberg Government Senior Defense Analyst Rob Levinson.
September 17, 2018 -
Appeals court says the Army acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it decided to pay contractors to build a new intelligence IT system, rather than buying a commercially-available one.
September 17, 2018 -
The Army still doesn't have a quantitative way to measure if Futures Command will work.
September 14, 2018 -
More than 3,800 civilian federal employees, and more than 9,700 military personnel are currently deployed to help respond to Hurricane Florence.
September 14, 2018 -
The Defense Department has been working to ensure the billions it spends on parts such as electronic components are genuine and working.
September 14, 2018 -
The organizational chart that maps out responsibilities for ensuring VA's new electronic health record will work with DoD's has 16 different boxes in it. That's a worry for many lawmakers.
September 14, 2018 -
Congressional leaders say they have reached agreement on a plan to pass a stopgap government funding bill through Dec. 7, thereby avoiding a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1.
September 13, 2018 -
Some Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina are being required to stay on base, which is directly in the path of Hurricane Florence, sources told Federal News Radio.
September 13, 2018 -
It might be the era of cloud computing but the Defense Department still occasionally buys software on discs in a shrink-wrapped box.
September 13, 2018 -
To advance the state-of-the art in using artificial intelligence for electronic warfare, the Army's Rapid Capabilities Office turns to a nontraditional "challenge" process.
September 13, 2018 -
Each year, the Defense Department spends more than $100 billion to run its 22 defense agencies and field activities. DoD is supposed to conduct reviews every two years to decide whether those “DAFAs” are still needed.
September 12, 2018