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The Army is required to provide Intel and weather information to soldiers in the field. The military branch opted to solicit for a development contract instead of diving into commercial software to complete the task. What happened next might be surprising, and Joe Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to provide some context.
February 16, 2017 -
Created in 1942 to help with efforts against Japan during WWII, the Navy Construction Batallion, or Seabees, is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2017. Navy Capt. Cheryl Hansen, commanding officer of the Seabees in Gulfport, Miss., joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss its history and give a look ahead.
February 15, 2017 -
Almost exactly four years after the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments decided to go their separate ways in their projects to modernize their electronic health records, DoD’s brand new EHR is now up and running, at least at one base.
February 14, 2017 -
The General Services Administration and schedule contractors continue debating the implementation of the Transactional Data Rule.
February 13, 2017 -
Army Cyber Command is starting two pilots aimed at bringing in more tech savvy soldiers.
February 09, 2017 -
Hint: It was in the works before a demanding tweet from the president-elect.
February 07, 2017 -
The Air Force and CACI recently inked an agreement for the company to support crucial satellite operations for the next seven years. The deal is worth nearly half a billion dollars. John Mengucci, chief operating officer and president of U.S. operations at CACI, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 06, 2017 -
The General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) released a draft solicitation asking for industry input in creating a bug bounty program.
February 06, 2017 -
Janice Haith, who retired Feb. 2 after 34 years in government, including the last six years as the Department of Navy’s deputy CIO for the U.S. Navy, said the DoN has seen millions of dollars in savings moving to an enterprise software license approach.
February 03, 2017 -
The Air Force is lowering its maintainer shortage, but still lacks experienced workers.
February 02, 2017 -
Defense Secretary James Mattis laid out plans for the next six years in a Feb. 1 memo.
February 01, 2017 -
In November, when Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel records were vulnerable to theft by hackers via the…
February 01, 2017 -
Although the governmentwide hiring freeze President Donald Trump ordered last week was mainly meant to shrink the federal workforce through gradual, voluntary attrition, it could result in an untold number of unexpected dismissals for Defense workers in charge of repairing and "resetting" military equipment.
February 01, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office stated the two services did not implement human capital strategies that could have helped alleviate the drone pilot short fall.
January 31, 2017 -
The Navy is trying to instill character and creativity in its sailors with a new leadership program.
January 30, 2017