DoD Reporter's Notebook
Pentagon leaders say it’s time to ratchet up the pressure on senior leaders to comply with existing security policies and better train their personnel on cyber hygiene.
October 19, 2015-
The service is implementing one of the few alternatives it has to a base realignment and closure (BRAC) round: moving soldiers and civilians out of its oldest buildings and shuttering them.
October 19, 2015 -
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, seems to have a habit of going off-message with details of the Office of Personnel Management data breach.
September 28, 2015 Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work tells the deputy chief management officer to come up with an implementation strategy for a “rationalized” Pentagon organizational chart.
August 10, 2015-
The Senate packed a lot into its version of the 2016 Defense authorization bill before final passage Thursday afternoon, and in a notable break from recent history, the full package passed well before the start of the new fiscal year.
June 22, 2015 -
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At the end of last year, Congress ordered up a new commission to study the Army's future. We now know who will serve on that eight-member study panel.
March 23, 2015 -
As part of its "third offset" strategy, the Pentagon says it needs a big focus on electronic warfare.
March 23, 2015 -
Terry Halvorsen, DoD's chief information officer, told reporters last week that he plans to conduct a limited bring-your-own-device pilot this summer.
March 23, 2015 -
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama named his picks to fill two Senate-confirmed DoD positions that have been vacant for quite a while.
March 09, 2015 -
It seems unlikely that Congress will go along with DoD's latest request to close stateside military bases, but in the case of the Army, many of the bases lawmakers are protecting would become a lot more sparsely-populated if the Budget Control Act stays in full force.
March 09, 2015 -
A nascent move to give the military's joint chiefs a larger role in procurement as part of the acquisition reform is expected to start taking shape on Capitol Hill.
March 09, 2015 -
A look at what Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, has in store for his next Performance of the Defense Acquisition System report.
March 09, 2015 -
In case any current security clearance holders have not gotten the message that the current administration really, really dislikes media leaks, it was made more explicit this month in a new policy document from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
February 23, 2015 -
The Pentagon is already working on changes to federal acquisition rules that would require stepped-up notification procedures when private companies hosting DoD data have their systems penetrated by hackers.
February 23, 2015