On DoD
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Maj. Gen. Thomas Seamands joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss the goals and mission of the Army Human Resources Command. July 22, 2016
July 13, 2016 -
The United States is hiring contractors to maintain aircraft in Afghanistan to keep the number of deployed troops lower.
July 06, 2016 -
With robots actually doing more in the 21st century, one researcher thinks they might actually need to learn how to interact with people. The Office of Naval Research is working with Georgia Tech associate professor, Mark Reidl, to teach them some manners.
July 06, 2016 -
The Senate confirmed a new head of the Navy's Fleet Cyber Command and new chief of staff of the Air Force.
June 30, 2016 -
Jack Midgley, executive officer, Defense and Social Infrastructure, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co. Ltd., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the company's 2016 Global Defense Outlook. June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016 -
Now that Congress looks poised to reject the Defense Department’s requests for another round of base realignments and closures (BRAC) for a fifth year in a row, the Air Force has decided to start its own process to calculate how valuable each of its bases actually are to the various missions it performs.
June 24, 2016 -
Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley wants brigades that can pivot from training U.S. partners to training new recruits in a catastrophic situation.
June 23, 2016 -
Silicon Valley technology company Palantir plans to sue the Army, claiming that the military service has shown bias against off-the-shelf products in its solicitation for a $206 million intelligence IT contract.
June 22, 2016 -
Paige Hinkle-Bowles is taking over for retired Deputy Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Navy for Civilian Human Resources Patricia Adams.
June 22, 2016 -
The Air Force is beginning to explore the idea of asking a single provider to take over the complicated web of business arrangements that power its bases and support its energy resiliency strategies, and replace them with a new model: Energy as a service.
June 22, 2016 -
The U.S. Naval Academy is preparing officers for conflict on the next battlefield with a cybersecurity major.
June 21, 2016 -
DoD's Third Offset strategy started investing in new areas last year to give the U.S. a technological advantage.
June 20, 2016 -
When the Naval Academy graduated its first set of cybersecurity majors a year ago, the group included submariners, surface warfare experts, pilots and Marines. Many seemed destined for great careers. Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Retired Capt. Paul Tortora, director of the center for Cybersecurity Studies at the Academy, and Ensign Zac Dannelly, the top performer in that first graduating class, to find out how cybersecurity education is changing the Navy.
June 20, 2016 -
Four years after launching the General Fund Enterprise Business System, Project Manager Col. Matt Russell said that most users in the organization have fully adopted it, and it’s time to focus on upgrades.
June 17, 2016 -
The Air Force is down 4,000 maintainers and it won't see them in full force for quite some time.
June 16, 2016