Service members are facing long travel times and financial burdens to get abortions.
Experts estimated around 20,000 people are assaulted in the military each year. The Army, Navy and Air Force are implementing new policies aimed at reducing assaults.
In Federal Drive host Tom Temin's final interview of this week's series on naval oceanography, he talks with the Mine Warfare Center's commanding officer, Commander Matthew Watts.
In today's Federal Newscast: No surprise. Inflation is hitting the contracting community, along with everyone else. GAO reports that DoD has shoddy tactics for testing children for lead exposure. And the Customs and Border Protection directorate hits facial recognition technology right between the eyes.
All of the military services are having issues recruiting enough people to fill their ranks.
Commander Angela Francis is commanding officer of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to tell us more about her job.
GAO found DoD's Industrial Base Policy Office doesn't have a fully developed strategy to mitigate risks. Director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Bill Russell, joined the Federal Drive to explain.
The Small Business Administration is trying to address the 40% decline in the small business industrial base over the last decade with new initiatives.
The Army is reevaluating its end strength numbers because recruitment is so challenging.
The Defense Department has issued a request for information on a study of finance. Three years in development, the study is supposed to take a comprehensive look at financing and the financial health of the defense industrial base. Many contractors think the study is too narrow in scope.
This week the Federal Drive is exploring the activities under the Naval Oceanography Operations Command. For details about his work in Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Oceanography Antisubmarine Warfare Center's Commander Christopher Tuggle joined the program.
Large and heavy as they might be, the Navy's ships are affected by weather. Operations and planning depend on knowing what the weather will bring.
The Air Force's chief digital transformation officer says challenge events have shown what's possible when developers work with classified, operational data, but also how DoD's policies forbid those innovations in practice.
Naval Air Station Oceana hosted a graduation ceremony for eight interns who were part of Project SEARCH, a program connecting high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities to internships and on-the-job training.
The U.S. Marine Corps has halted water operations for its new amphibious combat vehicles while it investigates why two of the seafaring tanks ran into trouble off Southern California's coast this week amid high surf