On DoD
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The Army doesn't think it will be able to adopt Windows 10 by the DoD's deadline.
March 24, 2016 -
This week's Pentagon Solutions looks at sleep-deprivation among Army soldiers and defective contract at six Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.
March 23, 2016 -
The Army is planning to co-mingle Army, National Guard and reservists to promote compatibility in peacetime and wartime.
March 22, 2016 -
Now that Congress has funded the Coast Guard's largest acquisition budget ever, Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the barometer is rising and the storms have abated.
March 22, 2016 -
View a video of the USS Hartford surfacing near the Arctic Circle as part of Ice Exercise 2016.
March 21, 2016 -
In a new report, Army medical officials strongly suggest they'll need help from across the force to keep the Army healthy.
March 18, 2016 -
The Navy and Coast Guard found out that guarantees aren't worth the deck plate they're engraved on when they ended up paying to correct defects that should have been covered. Michelle Mackin, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about GAO's review of six shipbuilding programs.
March 17, 2016 -
As the National Guard expands its cyber forces to 30 units, it is still trying to figure out how to deal with a cyber training backlog.
March 16, 2016 -
The Army will have to cut 14,000 soldiers, 10,000 of which will be officers to reach its force structure goals.
March 15, 2016 -
The Navy is developing a new cybersecurity testing system that will virtually link all the connected systems that would exist on an actual ship for testing. The project — called USS Secure — is an effort on the part of 28 shipbuilders to produce a cybersafe warship.
March 15, 2016 -
Army says divestiture is the "starting point" for its current modernization strategy as costs to maintain and store old equipment crowd out new procurement.
March 14, 2016 -
The Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley says he's pushing for a more mobile force of the future, both in terms of technology and acquisition.
March 11, 2016 -
The Army says it's enthusiastically embracing reforms that give its uniformed officials more responsibility, and asks Congress to give them more authority.
March 11, 2016 -
Later this month, the Navy is launching the USS Secure effort to ensure disparate networks and systems on board ships are protected from hacks or computer viruses. Adm. Lorin Selby, commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, fills in executive editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 10, 2016 -
NSA is setting up a rapid acquisition office to help engage industry and help the industrial base.
March 09, 2016