On DoD
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The United States may not be a war with Russia in the classic military sense. But it does have troops deployed to NATO countries. And that costs money.
March 03, 2022 -
After digging out of a massive backlog of background investigations, agencies are walking a tightrope to modernize a decades-old process.
March 02, 2022 -
For the first time this year DoD employees in Arlington County, Va. will not need a face covering indoors.
March 02, 2022 -
Russia's land war in Ukraine is in some ways, an outgrowth of its long running cyberspace war. And that affects everybody, not just Ukraine.
March 02, 2022 -
In just a few weeks the annual budget dance, this time for 2023, will start. People who follow these things closely predict the White House will request only a very small increase for the Defense Department, knowing Congress will plus it up anyway.
March 02, 2022 -
Dozens of U.S. Navy officials have admitted to being bought off by a gregarious, rotund Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who plied them with prostitutes, Cuban cigars and free stays at the Philippines’ Shangri-La hotel among other things
March 02, 2022 -
Longtime federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
March 01, 2022 -
The Space Development Agency awarded OTAs to three firms, each of whom will need to launch interoperable satellites that conform to DoD's National Defense Space Architecture.
March 01, 2022 -
New reports from DoD and NDIA highlight ongoing challenges the defense industrial base is facing in light of rising tensions among near peer competitors.
February 28, 2022 -
The capabilities of the Russian military have been on display for several days now, its strengths, its weaknesses and general operational doctrines.
February 28, 2022 -
Let's face it. China may no longer be a near-peer to the United States, militarily. It's likely caught up and could even be ahead. Analysis by Govini finds that to gain or keep an advantage, military leaders don't need more money. They need better decision science.
February 28, 2022 -
The agency's new "commercial supplier matrix" is intended to help intelligence analysts and other users sort through a growing mountain of space imagery.
February 25, 2022 -
The U.S. military gets legal advice from the JAGs before using force, but the Air Force is seeing if AI can improve and speed up that advice.
February 24, 2022 -
The Army says giving commanders access to data is helping with innovation.
February 23, 2022 -
The CMMC AB is gearing up for voluntary assessments and is also looking to recruit more cybersecurity assessors, but the timeline for CMMC remains as unclear as ever.
February 23, 2022