On DoD
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Continuing his series of interviews with the most recent class of Presidential Rank Award winners, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with someone who's been on his show before. Cara Abercrombie is the former Acting Deputy Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
March 02, 2023 -
DoD says it's on a path to stop using firefighting foams linked to health risks, but fixing past problems will take a decade or more.
March 02, 2023 -
Cyber Command moves to the next stage in developing a joint cyber intelligence center that assesses offensive capabilities.
March 01, 2023 -
Can the Defense Department help itself to commercial intellectual property, even stuff not developed with federal dollars? Yes it can, as a matter of fact. At least judging from a recent case before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
March 01, 2023 -
Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer, joined the service in 2017 starting at AFWERX before ascending to the CIO’s role for the last two-plus years.
February 23, 2023 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's department issued a new small-business strategy a couple of weeks ago. It comes as more dollars are going to fewer smaller businesses.
February 23, 2023 -
The Department of the Navy pushed out Tom Sasala, the department’s highly-respected CDO since October 2019, leaving it without defined leadership and potentially overwhelming its data organization.
February 22, 2023 -
The small but potent Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has reached its stride, as it enters its eighth year in business. The DIU uses a technique known as "other transaction authority" to quickly get new technology prototypes built for military purposes.
February 21, 2023 -
Aaron Weis, the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer, wrote to staff that his last day is March 17.
February 21, 2023 -
DCSA is reducing rates by 18% in fiscal 2024, amid the governmentwide shift to continuous vetting.
February 14, 2023 -
TRADOC looks to a more nuanced synthetic training experience to prepare soldiers for battle.
February 14, 2023 -
A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.
February 13, 2023 -
More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry's main trade associations.
February 10, 2023 -
This week Federal Drive host Tom Temin has been interviewing some of the Defense Department's acquisition workforce award winners. In this interview, he talks with someone with a title Temin said he will only pronounce: "The finance manager for the joint program executive office for chemical, biological, radio-logical and nuclear defense joint assisted acquisition team.
February 09, 2023 -
Eric Crusius, a partner with Holland & Knight, explains how the cybersecurity compliance regime for contractors will continue to grow whether or not DoD finalizes CMMC
February 08, 2023