On DoD
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The Navy and Army told the House Armed Services Committee they were on track to meet the 2017 deadline to have clean financial audit. The Army Corps of Engineers already achieved the goal and the Marine Corps is well on its way as well.
September 08, 2011 -
Gen. Raymond Odierno has been sworn in as the new Army chief of staff. At the ceremony, he said the United States must avoid rash decisions such as slashing the size of the Army in order to rein in the defense budget.
September 08, 2011 -
Panetta says the attacks a decade ago have in some ways strengthened the United States at home and abroad.
September 07, 2011 -
The Army is planning a 2012 release for a major information technology contract. Request for proposals are set for the second quarter on the 10-year, $5 billion dollar IT Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract.
September 06, 2011 -
The Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation a $50 million contract to evaluate the service\'s inventory of sensors. The Atlanta company will survey the sensor market and test how well different devices work and will also look at new ways for the military to use sensors.
September 06, 2011 -
A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.
September 02, 2011 -
The Departments of the Navy, Agriculture and Energy are asking industry how best to spend $510 million on the future of biofuels. They are leaning on a 1950 law that lets the government pour cash into defense-critical industries.
August 31, 2011 -
The contract is for HP to provide work stations, processors and other products.
August 30, 2011 -
For the first time this weekend, dual-commanders were deployed for a natural disaster, the Defense Department announced.
August 29, 2011 -
The Army\'s new cyber command, only 11 months old, is working to implement a strategic plan based on three pillars. One challenge is building a workforce that can meet the service\'s offensive and defensive objectives in cyberspace.
August 29, 2011 -
Todd Canni, the Air Force Associate General Counsel, joined the Federal Drive to discuss a recent article he wrote dealing with contractor suspensions and debarments.
August 26, 2011 -
Following the tropical storm warning for the Washington, D.C. area issued by the National Weather Service early Friday morning, federal preparation activities are getting underway. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is coordinating efforts.
August 26, 2011 -
The Army has begun moving users of DoD\'s secret IP network to a more secure, two-factor PKI authentication system. It\'s one of several measures the service says it\'s taking to better use trusted identities on DoD networks.
August 24, 2011 -
Each service will have a board to approve technology buys. The Department of the Navy CIO established the level for sign-off at $1 million, but the Navy and Marine Corps set their thresholds much lower. The goal is to gain more control than ever over IT purchases in order to reduce the technology budget by 25 percent over the next five years.
August 24, 2011 -
Subhead: The Defense Department said preparing for an agencywide financial audit by 2017 is a good way to make sure every dollar counts in this budget climate. It is putting resources into training administrators and trying to improve its technology systems.
August 24, 2011