On DoD
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Trump's 2017 supplemental budget goes over the legal budget caps.
March 16, 2017 -
When the Navy raised up the sunken Civil War Confederate submarine Hunley back in 2000, it put a spotlight on the Naval History and Heritage Command. That was back in 2000. Principal Investigator Robert Neyland provides Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update on the Hunley and the command.
March 16, 2017 -
The Army says it has established a new, streamlined process to approve exemptions from President Donald Trump’s governmentwide hiring freeze, and has now approved about 20,000 new civilian hires, up from just 5,500 waivers the service had issued as of a week ago.
March 15, 2017 -
The Navy is implementing its leadership framework, just as the Marine Corps photo scandal is getting bigger.
March 14, 2017 -
The Defense Department hit a major milestone a few weeks ago, bringing its new electronic health record system online at its first facility. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu visited Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington to talk with clinicians and Defense health officials about how the new system, MHS Genesis, is working so far. He filed this report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 13, 2017 -
Of the Army’s buildings, 22 percent now meet the Defense Department’s criteria for “poor” or “failing” condition. The service faces a backlog of $10.8 billion in deferred maintenance projects.
March 09, 2017 -
Top military service officials President Trump's federal hiring freeze is causing problems for those in the military.
March 08, 2017 -
For many years, researchers at the Army Institute of Surgical Research have concentrated on what they call compensatory reserve. That is, how much blood loss can a person sustain and the body still compensate. Dr. Victor Convertino, senior scientist at the Institute, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Army, in concert with the FDA, has developed a new device that can help prevent battlefield deaths.
March 07, 2017 -
Military planners often look out three or five or 10 years in advance to predict requirements. Now a new institute at the Naval War College is looking at the long-range warfare needs of the U.S. Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, president of the Naval War College, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the Institute for Future Warfare studies.
March 06, 2017 -
The Army put out a request for information (RFI) looking for vendors who could provide services to find, monitor and remove impostor social media accounts.
March 06, 2017 -
Discharge Review Boards rarely grant veterans personal testimony and are having trouble providing video conferences.
March 02, 2017 -
The Navy has just stood up a new “digital warfare” office, prompted by the notion that the service is awash in valuable, but largely untapped data in areas ranging from acquisition, maintenance and audit readiness to the ways it trains and equips its sailors.
February 24, 2017 -
Freezing civilian federal workers might leave the Navy short the engineers it needs to build up to 355 ships.
February 23, 2017 -
The Defense Department will move nearly a quarter of a million workers to the New Beginnings system in April.
February 20, 2017 -
Problems transferring licenses from military to civilian world or from one state to another are starting to get attention in Congress.
February 17, 2017