Army

  • Just how many Defense Department employees will eventually be using a cloud-based e-mail service depends who you ask. Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s vice director, told reporters Tuesday, selling the Navy and Air Force on its cloud-based email system is a matter of when, not if. However, Hawkins admits, “If you [...]

    May 05, 2011
  • The Army is set to show off a new ammunition with improved accuracy and higher velocity, improved hard target capability, more consistent soft target performance, and a significantly increased range of these effects.

    May 04, 2011
  • The Army is moving its email to the Defense Information Systems Agency\'s cloud. DISA\'s vice chief told reporters Tuesday that getting the rest of the military services on board was a question of when, not if.

    May 04, 2011
  • Feds who make more than $180,000 a year make up less than one percent of the federal workforce. Leading that pack are doctors, lawyers and dentists. Doctors held roughly eight out of 10 of the top-salaried jobs.

    May 03, 2011
  • The Army will open its next Apps for Army challenge to industry and the public, officials said Friday. The process is focused on developing capabilities that are not dependent on any particular platform.

    May 02, 2011
  • The Army is working on another \"Apps for the Army\" content, this time opening it up to the public and industry.

    April 29, 2011
  • Command Sergeant Major Bernard C. McPherson, command sergeant major of PEO Soldier, explains how budget cuts will affect his organization\'s ability to fund research and development for the equipment needed by troops.

    April 27, 2011
  • The Army has picked the Google android as the operating system they want to put in the hands of troops on the ground.

    April 25, 2011
  • A new Pentagon inspector general report finds \"procedural and technical weaknesses\" in the Army\'s traffic assessment surrounding its plans to move 6,400 Defense employees to a privately owned office complex in northern Virginia. Rep. Jim Moran, whose district includes the site, said the findings provide the underpinnings for local officials to sue the Pentagon to stop the move.

    April 22, 2011
  • The Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command awarded 36 contracts under its OPTARSS II program. The program provides DoD with operational planning, training and more.

    April 21, 2011
  • A new report finds the Pentagon used faulty data when it decided to relocate 6,400 Department of Defense workers from Crystal City to Alexandria\'s Mark Center as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Act.

    April 21, 2011
  • Army officials told Congress Thursday that they had made progress in reforming management at Arlington National Cemetery, an institution they said lacked a management foundation when a new management team took over in the wake of a scandal involving mismarked grave sites and other problems. Some members still are unhappy with the changes.

    April 15, 2011
  • After a decade at war, the Army must transform itself to better face the challenges of the future, the general taking the helm of America\'s ground force said Monday, telling soldiers he will lay out a plan for the future in two months.

    April 12, 2011
  • The DoD is funding research to combat the effects of altitude sickness in warzones. Research Physiologist, Dr. Stephen Muza, explains why.

    March 31, 2011