On DoD
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The Air Force announced a 90-day hiring freeze for civilian positions, and will also offer early retirement and voluntary separation.
August 12, 2011 -
Tony McClure, who spent 20 years in the Army and now works at the Army\'s Information Technology Agency in Washington, discussed making his move to the Washington area after years out in the field.
August 12, 2011 -
On the Federal Drive: The Coast Guard became the first agency to adopt both iPhones and Android mobile platforms, the Navy cyber command gets a new leader and the National Treasury Employees Union re-elected its leader.
August 11, 2011 -
The defense contractor will supply the service with four weapons systems trainers.
August 10, 2011 -
Air Force Captain Travis Passey says you can\'t simulate the environment of flying with the Gs and some of the stresses that you have on your body, the heat, things like that.
August 10, 2011 -
The Navy\'s cyber command will welcome a new leader as it approaches its one-year anniversary since declaring full operational capability.
August 10, 2011 -
Lockheed Martin was awarded an $84 million deal with the Air Force to supply the service with four weapons systems trainers, This story is part of Federal News Radio\'s daily DoD Report.
August 10, 2011 -
The Army will begin lifting its finger off of the pause button for enterprise email within the next few days, the service\'s chief information officer said.
August 10, 2011 -
The Defense Department is not keeping up with the Department of Veterans Affairs in evaluating the disabilities of injured servicemembers, the Army\'s second highest ranking officer said Monday. The two agencies are working toward a joint system to reduce the evaluation time from 540 days to 295 days.
August 09, 2011 -
Now the Army is sending four Squad Mission Support System robot Jeeps to the country, where they will haul supplies for troops.
August 08, 2011 -
Diane Cochran has worked in the Departments of the Navy, Air Force, Energy, and the Office of Personnel Management, at a variety of locations in the continental United States and abroad. She shares what it\'s like to make the transition to working and living in D.C.
August 08, 2011 -
The Army plans to cut nearly 9,000 civilian jobs by October of next year, Federal Times reports. Army Secretary John McHugh ordered Army leaders to start cutting staffing as part of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates\' efficiency initiatives.
August 08, 2011 -
On Today\'s Federal Drive: The effect of the S&P downgrade on federal agencies, GSA rethinks new pay-for-parking rule and the Army cuts civilian personnel.
August 08, 2011 -
Half the cuts will come from the Army\'s Installation Management Command -- that\'s almost 12 per cent of the total workforce at the command.
August 05, 2011 -
The Department of the Navy has issued two requests for information from industry, one on a public-private data center partnership model; another on commercial collaboration software as a service. The department must cut its IT business system spending by 25 percent.
August 03, 2011