DoD Reporter's Notebook
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The Army Research Office is working on augmented reality goggles, radio communications for dogs who are already trained to sniff out explosives and landmines.
October 26, 2020 -
According to the study, under normal conditions on a commercial jetliner, it would take several consecutive days onboard an aircraft for one COVID-infected passenger to infect another.
October 19, 2020 -
The Defense Department is putting $600 million into 5G in five new military installations.
October 13, 2020 -
DoD CIO Dana Deasy says officials have been finding temporary homes for cloud applications that were counting on the long-delayed JEDI program. Other preparatory that's not technically part of the contract has been proceeding apace too.
October 05, 2020 -
The executive order President Donald Trump signed last week to ban certain types of diversity training carries enormous potential penalties for federal contractors. But at least for the time being, the vendor community appears to be holding its breath while it figures out exactly what the EO means.
September 28, 2020 -
The White House says a new agency-level appeals process for clearance denials could expose classified information, increase processing time.
September 21, 2020 -
Only a little more than a third of the R&D expenses the Pentagon reimburses contractors for each year match up with the department's own modernization priorities, the Government Accountability Office says.
September 14, 2020 -
Air Force Materiel Command is looking at all of its position descriptions, written before COVID-19, to determine if they're more conducive to telework than originally thought.
August 31, 2020 -
DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.
August 24, 2020 -
Lawmakers probably won't have time to slip ideas to better space procurement in this year's defense policy bill.
August 03, 2020 -
The bipartisan House provision, advocated by Rep. Jim Langevin, would also work with federal departments to develop a U.S. national cyber strategy.
July 27, 2020 -
Defense officials say COVID-19 "shattered the myth" that employees can't be productive while teleworking. In many cases, they're more productive than ever.
July 20, 2020 -
An IG inspection found half a billion dollars in unfunded maintenance items at DoD health care facilities, including at least seven that could cause death or serious injuries.
July 13, 2020 -
TRANSCOM says the apparent need for corrective action was triggered by an honest mistake in the government's System for Award Management. But the command's position is difficult to reconcile with other publicly-available evidence.
July 06, 2020 -
The department created the data management position within the office of the Chief Management Officer in 2018. But as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress moved the CDO job to the CIO’s office.
June 22, 2020