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Army Secretary Eric Fanning has issued highly detailed orders to three-and-four star generals in the Army's headquarters and functional and geographic commands, telling them precisely what must be done to close 60 percent of the service’s 1,200 data centers by the end of 2018 and 75 percent by 2025.
January 10, 2017 -
The Air Force is standing up a new, full-time office dedicated to protecting its weapons systems from cyber attacks.
January 10, 2017 -
The new year brings a host of people on the move, including a new deputy CIO at the Defense Department and a familiar face leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s IT office.
January 09, 2017 -
As Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James closes out her tenure, she is setting up a new Air Force Digital Service.
January 06, 2017 -
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it expects to reach final decisions by July on each of the more than 17,000 cases in which soldiers were paid large bonuses to re-enlist during the heights of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only to be told years later that they must give the money back.
January 04, 2017 -
One of the main tenets of the Pentagon's Better Buying Power initiative is changing procurement for the better.
January 02, 2017 -
The Air Force is selecting its biggest class ever to participate in the Career Intermission Program.
December 29, 2016 -
The Air Force will implement a new civilian evaluation system next spring to increase communication between supervisors and employees.
December 28, 2016 -
Navy documents retrieved by the Washington Post reveal that the branch's criminal division had been trying since 2006 to find evidence of corruption on defense contractor Leonard Francis.
December 28, 2016 -
A sailor from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group greets his baby girl as part of a holiday homecoming.
December 27, 2016 -
The Air Force awarded a $31 million contract to review more than 100 command and control systems for cyber vulnerabilities.
December 27, 2016 -
The crew of the International Space Station sends a holiday message, sailors from the USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group return home and the Interior Department shows off some of its big trees.
December 26, 2016 -
Viola's nomination was out of the blue, but experts say that might work to his advantage. Outsiders can create an opportunity for change through new perspectives.
December 20, 2016 -
A replacement for Air Force One made headlines recently. But the Air Force is dealing with multiple platforms that are aging and due for upgrades or replacement. Many of them belong to the Air Force. Maj. Gen. Mike Fortney, vice commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a survey of what needs modernizing.
December 20, 2016 -
After cutting burdensome training and duties, the Air Force is creating a board to review more issues in the future.
December 19, 2016