On DoD

  • The game is called the Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI).

    May 11, 2011
  • The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group, including America\'s newest aircraft carrier, deploys today.

    May 11, 2011
  • Lockheed has officially opened a new cyber lab devoted to cyber security research, and will work closely with CMU faculty.

    May 11, 2011
  • In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, \"By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?\"

    May 10, 2011
  • Moving into a new building has allowed DISA to revamp its technology infrastructure, including consolidating circuits, servers and paper records. The Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical is building a new network to carry health data and applications for three services to share. Both organizations say without BRAC, these changes would have taken longer to happen.

    May 10, 2011
  • Federal News Radio has compiled a list of important links and resources on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure.

    May 09, 2011
  • The stand-down order was made Tuesday but is just now becoming public. It\'s unclear how long the stand down will last.

    May 06, 2011
  • A House committee cut funding for the project in the 2012 budget by 98 percent.

    May 05, 2011
  • Just how many Defense Department employees will eventually be using a cloud-based e-mail service depends who you ask. Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s vice director, told reporters Tuesday, selling the Navy and Air Force on its cloud-based email system is a matter of when, not if. However, Hawkins admits, “If you [...]

    May 05, 2011
  • The Pentagon has been telling Congress for years it doesn\'t want the F136 alternative engine for the F35 fighter jet, because it costs too much money.

    May 05, 2011
  • The Army is set to show off a new ammunition with improved accuracy and higher velocity, improved hard target capability, more consistent soft target performance, and a significantly increased range of these effects.

    May 04, 2011
  • The Army is moving its email to the Defense Information Systems Agency\'s cloud. DISA\'s vice chief told reporters Tuesday that getting the rest of the military services on board was a question of when, not if.

    May 04, 2011
  • Feds who make more than $180,000 a year make up less than one percent of the federal workforce. Leading that pack are doctors, lawyers and dentists. Doctors held roughly eight out of 10 of the top-salaried jobs.

    May 03, 2011
  • The 2011 budget is re-energizing Navy ship building. The service will spend more than a billion dollars to build a new submarine.

    May 02, 2011