On DoD
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This week, Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm talked with Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James.
January 06, 2016 -
An old quip about the Defense Department is that the Navy, Army and Marines all have their own air force. Throw in the Air Force itself and you've got a lot of flying assets. Yet DoD can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it. The Rand Corporation looked into this and came up with some recommendations for an activity that costs billions every year. Michael Boito, senior cost analyst at Rand, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
January 06, 2016 -
For the Army's Enterprise Services unit, IT has been a migration from unifying email to rationalizing many widely used services. Doug Haskin, project director for Enterprise Services, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how Congress gave the whole effort a shot in the arm.
January 06, 2016 -
The Army has issued a request for information, asking cloud vendors to describe their capabilities in more than 30 separate areas that could help it move its applications from government data centers to modern commercial hosting environments.
January 06, 2016 -
Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.
January 05, 2016 -
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. says he plans to do his part to respond to congressional criticism over ballooning bureaucracies at the Pentagon.
January 04, 2016 -
The Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron spends its summer and fall flying into hurricanes. In the winter season, it flies around blizzards to measure wind speed and trajectory. Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione caught up with the squadron’s Chief Meteorologist Lt. Col. Jon Talbot to find how just how they do it and shared that report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 04, 2016 -
In Monday's Federal Headlines, the Department of Homeland Security’s former chief says he doesn't have confidence in the government's ability to screen and vet Syrian refugees looking to enter the U.S.
December 28, 2015 -
If there's anxiety from war, self pity, or cynicism, you don't see it in these faces.
December 24, 2015 -
This photo gallery shows how U.S. Navy personnel and their families are celebrating the holiday season at home and abroad.
December 24, 2015 -
The Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are preparing for their winter mission of tracking winter storms to provide data to the National Weather Service.
December 23, 2015 -
Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
December 23, 2015 -
Navy identified dozens of systems due to transition to new consolidated data centers, but are still at risk for failing to comply with DoD cyber regulations
December 22, 2015 -
The number-two civilian jobs in all three military departments are vacant for the moment. But the Senate could vote as soon as next month to confirm new undersecretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, the nominees say their top priorities will be restoring military readiness and shrinking their departments’ headquarters staffs.
December 22, 2015 -
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
December 22, 2015