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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.
As part of its "third offset" strategy, the Pentagon says it needs a big focus on electronic warfare.
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.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama named his picks to fill two Senate-confirmed DoD positions that have been vacant for quite a while.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An update to an earlier DoD Reporter's Notebook item on the Pentagon embarking on a new review of the department's use of lowest-price technically acceptable (LPTA) contract awards.
After having gotten a partial, two-year reprieve from sequestration, the original caps Congress set for the Defense Department in the Budget Control Act (BCA) are scheduled to go back into effect in October.
The service's ambitious plan to replace its legacy communications circuits. with an everything-over-IP infrastructure that can handle voice, video, chat and lots of other collaboration tools looks like it's going to be delayed.
The Army Force Generation process is on its way out - apparently as a casualty of reduced force structure.
Energy has been a hot topic within DoD for the last several years, with each of the military services pledging to reduce their overall consumption and get at least 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.