2018 NDAA

TRICARE drug prices will rise next year, and in the foreseeable future

TRICARE beneficiaries who get their drugs through home delivery or through a retail pharmacy will pay anywhere from $1 to $8 more in copayments starting…

Defense

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file aerial photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The U.S. military wants to expand its use of artificial intelligence in warfare but says it will take care to deploy the technology in accordance with the nation’s values. The Pentagon outlined its first AI strategy on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Marijuana, space and Star Wars: 2019 was wild for the military, here’s what 2020 holds

Defense

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Why DoD may have given Amazon every reason to protest JEDI

Defense

The Section 846 Draft RFP, limiting competition for the $6-30B e-pilot

Commentary

Section 846 & commercial item contracting

Off the Shelf

Navy education overhaul creates new CLO, community college

Navy

e-GSA: Creating opportunities through e-commerce

Commentary

With new legal authority, Pentagon says it’s turned corner on enterprise IT

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Addressing cyber risks of e-commerce

Commentary

ILE - In this July 22, 2018 file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news conference at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Treasury Department has issued new rules on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds. The rules represent the latest escalation in an intensifying economic conflict between the United States and China. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

New bill asks Treasury Dept. to offer furloughed feds interest free loans

Federal Newscast

e-Commerce: To be or not to be

Commentary

DoD CIO gets beefed-up authorities, responsibilities starting Tuesday

Law taking effect Jan. 1 gives the Defense Department chief information officer new authorities over military services’ “disparate” IT modernization efforts.

Defense

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer attends a Senate Armed Services hearing Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Navy says its readiness is improving, but progress is fragile

The Navy tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that a change in funding could hurt its trajectory on readiness.

GAO: USPS’ retiree health benefits fund could be depleted by 2030

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office said the Postal Service’s retiree health benefits fund has over $60 billion in unfunded liabilities.