Young service members increasingly prioritize stability, meaningful engagement with their leaders and financial compensation over traditional job satisfaction.
"This is actually a great partnership between our organizations, and it's our first ever partnership," said Joel Spangenberg.
Potential bidders have until the end of this week to offer comments on the Army's latest draft request for proposals. 15-20 firms will win spots on the contract
The Pentagon made some key tweaks to the final CMMC program rule. Several program watchers said the changes should help simplify a complex compliance program.
"We're getting more tactical, more mobile, because as the threat evolves, we have to evolve also," said Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey.
"The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey is one of the key ways that we measure the pulse of the workforce," said Christina Freese.
"We've continued to support the needs of the warfighter even without pulling our installations into the modern era," said Stephanie Hoaglin.
Jeff Baur, the product director for logistics IT for the Navy’s PEO-MLB, said ensuring the new platform meets the users’ needs is a top priority.
RTX Corporation, the defense contractor formerly known as Raytheon, has agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the government and paid bribes to secure business with Qatar. The company entered into deferred prosecution agreements in separate cases in federal court in Brooklyn and Boston, agreed to hire independent monitors to oversee compliance with anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws and must show good conduct for three years. The money the company owes includes penalties in the criminal cases, as well as civil fines, restitution and the return of profits it derived from inflated Defense Department billing and business derived from alleged bribes paid to a high-ranking Qatari military official from 2012 to 2016.
The service barely surpassed its target in 2025 after years of recruiting shortfalls. It now wants to recruit 61,000 new soldiers in 2025.
"We're working with our development teams and we're working with testing. And then we have a policy that covers all of that," said Young Bang.
"The real meat of CMMC is now finalized and out," said Eric Crusius, attorney at Holland Knight.
The development Tuesday is the latest over the decades to undo past discrimination against LGBTQ service members.
The Pentagon has taken another big step forward to make CMMC a reality. DoD projects the requirements will start showing up in contracts by mid-2025.
The Army is exploring the idea of creating a separate path or a sub-path within the software acquisition pathway specifically for AI.