Ashton Carter

DoD still haunted by $125 billion efficiency report

A Defense Business Board report remains a thorn in DoD’s side, even as the agency stands to get an additional $54 billion in spending for fiscal 2018.

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Donald Trump, James Mattis (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Mattis nomination for SECDEF requires both houses of Congress, but all signs point to yes

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon expands white-hat hacker challenge to all comers

Defense

Carter rolls out plan to close geographic gaps in military recruiting

Defense

Carter creates new DoD post: Chief Innovation Officer

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter/AP/Andrew Harnik

Carter: Eighth consecutive year of continuing resolutions is ‘deplorable,’ creates strategic risk

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DoD plans expansion of government’s first-ever ‘bug bounty’

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Carter rebukes House plan to add funds, troops to Defense budget

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U.S. Cyber Command poised for a promotion in DoD’s organizational chart

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JIE: ‘Building the Fort Knox of Network Security’

Federal Insights

R&D, cyber are high priorities in Pentagon’s 2017 budget

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DoD bids to make military life more ‘family-friendly’

The second round of DoD’s Force of the Future initiative focuses on military families. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the reforms would improve the…

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Carter says no exceptions: All military positions will open to women

The decision opens up 214,000 military billets to female service members, and also makes them subject to involuntary assignment to previously-closed combat…

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Carter starts overhaul of Defense personnel system with low-hanging fruit

Defense

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces the first broad strokes in his Force of the Future initiative, but avoids controversial topics such as military promotion and civilian personnel management.