On DoD

  • The Deputy commander of Navy Fleet cyber command Rear Admiral Bill Leigher explains the significance of this realignment.

    May 02, 2011
  • Information sharing has come a long way since Sept. 11, 2001. This interagency collaboration will be key to military successes, especially as the Defense Department prepares for massive spending cuts.

    May 02, 2011
  • The Army will open its next Apps for Army challenge to industry and the public, officials said Friday. The process is focused on developing capabilities that are not dependent on any particular platform.

    May 02, 2011
  • Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class James Williams is nearing the end of his predeployment training, but for him and his pregnant wife, that means time is running out to make some important family arrangements.

    May 01, 2011
  • The Army is working on another \"Apps for the Army\" content, this time opening it up to the public and industry.

    April 29, 2011
  • To give insight on what military bloggers can and can\'t do is milblogger and retired Senior Master Sergeant Rex Temple of the Air Force.

    April 29, 2011
  • New technology designed to revolutionize law enforcement\'s ability to process fingerprints has hit a new milestone. We get details from the FBI\'s Jerry Pender.

    April 28, 2011
  • Command Sergeant Major Bernard C. McPherson, command sergeant major of PEO Soldier, explains how budget cuts will affect his organization\'s ability to fund research and development for the equipment needed by troops.

    April 27, 2011
  • At nearly four times the budget, a new Air Force satellite is about to be launched nine years late.

    April 27, 2011
  • The Army has picked the Google android as the operating system they want to put in the hands of troops on the ground.

    April 25, 2011
  • The Air Force Materiel Command will explore the possibility of buyouts to help reduce its workforce. The agency plans to survey its civilian workforce next week to see if there is enough interest in $25,000 buyouts.

    April 25, 2011
  • In a recent test at the White Sands Missile Range, Raytheon\'s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System successfully launched Lockheed Martin\'s PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement to intercept a threat target. The successful intercept supports General Peter Chiarelli\'s testimony that the technology from the recently-cancelled MEADS program can be harvested for Patriot. Chiarelli made the statements during his testimony at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing April 5. Currently, 12 countries including the United States have selected Patriot as their Air and Missile Defense System.

    April 22, 2011
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he\'s committed to the Air Force\'s new refueling tanker.

    April 22, 2011
  • A new Pentagon inspector general report finds \"procedural and technical weaknesses\" in the Army\'s traffic assessment surrounding its plans to move 6,400 Defense employees to a privately owned office complex in northern Virginia. Rep. Jim Moran, whose district includes the site, said the findings provide the underpinnings for local officials to sue the Pentagon to stop the move.

    April 22, 2011