On DoD
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President Barack Obama gave the commencement address, then saluted and shook hands with every U.S. Air Force Academy graduate.
June 02, 2016 -
The Army is tightening retention policy, which will lead to 3,000 noncommissioned officers leaving the service. A new directive returns retention control points to their pre-2007 levels. The soldiers are forced to retire or go to the reserve or National Guard components.
June 02, 2016 -
Sailors, Marines and civilians from Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) and its commands and subordinate units are competing in the Surface Line Week (SLW) 2016 Challenge from May 31 until June 3 at Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
June 02, 2016 -
The Air Force has increased Boeing's contract to replenish its inventory of guidance kits that convert unguided "dumb bombs" into smart munitions.
June 02, 2016 -
Service members with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury cannot separated be from the service without those conditions being taken into consideration, even in cases of misconduct.
June 01, 2016 -
The question for Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is how tough and accountable the Navy will be about itself as the Fat Leonard scandal widens.
May 31, 2016 -
1,077 first-class midshipmen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on May 27.
May 27, 2016 -
The Navy is considering multisourcing its next NGEN contract.
May 27, 2016 -
Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu discusses information warfare and Navy weapons systems with Vice Adm. Ted Branch and Rear Adm. Michael Manazir at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 24, 2016 -
Assistant Secretary of the Army Katherine Hammack is leading the Army’s charge toward more sustainable bases. The Army has some ambitious near-term goals for energy savings.
May 24, 2016 -
In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.
May 23, 2016 -
Miranda Ballantine, the assistant secretary of the Air Force, joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm.
May 20, 2016 -
The Navy has formed a temporary organization to gather information and investigate a path toward interoperability and integration for its systems.
May 20, 2016 -
The Navy is in the very early stages of a program that aims to overhaul and replace more than 100 systems and applications which currently handle ship maintenance, many of which date to the 1960s.
May 19, 2016 -
The Navy said it wants to look outside the box for new solutions to its challenges with cybersecurity and embedded platform systems. Navy Deputy CIO Janice Haith said the service will launch a contest later this month to solicit ideas from its own workforce on getting rid of or modernizing outdated, tactical systems.
May 19, 2016