DoD Reporter's Notebook
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The Army is a few weeks away from an experiment that aims to tackle the “use it or lose it” phenomenon that manifests itself at the end of each fiscal year in almost every government office.
June 06, 2016 -
The Navy’s top cyber commander says her service needs to spend the next one thinking about a broad array of new activities that fall under the general heading of “procedural compliance.”
June 06, 2016 -
Terry Halvorsen, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, now plans to be much more “prescriptive” about what each military service and DoD component must do to rein in their costs.
April 11, 2016 -
Assuming the Army completes its planned drawdown to 450,000 active duty soldiers by the end of next year, the service will own and operate 21 percent more real estate and facilities than it can conceivably put to productive military use.
April 11, 2016 -
The Defense Department is taking a serious look at overhauling its process for accrediting commercial cloud computing products as secure-enough for military use.
April 11, 2016 -
Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, said his service will arrive at decisions within a matter of weeks on a new way forward for the Modular Handgun System, which has been in the works since 2011.
April 11, 2016 -
As of last week, all of the Defense Department components that fall under the direct control of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) are barred from hiring any new civilian employees.
March 28, 2016 -
Within the next month, the Navy expects to issue a request for proposals to support a new concept it’s calling the “Cloud Store.”
March 28, 2016 -
Peter Levine, DoD’s deputy chief management officer, told a House subcommittee that his office's problem with deploying business IT systems boils down to too many cooks in the kitchen.
March 28, 2016 -
Top officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs will meet this week with leaders from several leading veterans’ service organizations, seeking common ground on a legislative proposal that would overhaul the appeals process for veterans’ compensation claims.
March 07, 2016 -
The Defense Department announced it would be launching the federal government’s first-ever “bug bounty,” banking on the idea that there’s a nascent community of white hat hackers that's been itching to help the Pentagon with its cybersecurity challenges.
March 07, 2016 -
The Navy Department is making it clear that military members and civilians can be reassigned or dismissed from government service altogether if they don’t stay current on their cyber defense training.
March 07, 2016 -
Through a system once known as contract court and now called Services Requirements Review Boards (SRRBs), the Defense Department is looking to cut 10 percent of its spending on contracted services within DoD's "fourth estate" this year.
February 22, 2016 -
Individual DoD components are still, to a large extent, on their own when it comes to picking a provider and shepherding them through the military’s security approval process. The Navy hopes to change that beginning next month with a managed service it’s calling its “Cloud Store.”
February 22, 2016 -
A message to the fleet dated Feb. 5 says administrators of all unclassified systems have only one week left to implement two-factor authentication using Common Access Cards.
February 22, 2016