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Workforce

Here's one prescription for getting more qualified civilians into national security work

As threats to the United States multiply, the government will need growing numbers of capable civilians in national security. But creaky apparatus for hiring and clearing people gets in the way. That's from a detailed look by the Center for a New American Security. The Federal Drive got more now from senior fellow Katherine Kuzminski.

Defense

DoD's decentralized strategy for active shooters could be dangerous, IG says

Defense

Army National Guard once again seeing less demand as COVID enters new phase

Army

Army adjusting expectations for first IVAS release

Defense

Marine Corps expects to transform into new force around 2023

Defense

Military sexual assault commissioners urge officials not to get bogged down by UCMJ changes

Army

Army says its budget is stretched, Congress thinks it might be doing too much

Carrie Cordero

Cybersecurity

Congressional regulation of federal cybersecurity offers only a mixed-bag of solutions

Susanna Blume 1

Federal Drive

Armed services continuously make procurement reforms

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Defense

Congressional battle brewing over a small, but influential office in DoD

Paul Scharre, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Federal Drive

Paul Scharre: Army data finds concussions in soldiers after live ammo training

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Federal Drive

Greg Allen: Artificial intelligence finally coming into its own

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A recently released transcript from the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, features new allegations of involvement in terrorism by officials in Saudi Arabia, including an unnamed member of the royal family. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

BRAC

Dozens of think tankers join DoD in push for BRAC

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Federal Drive

What's ahead for the all-volunteer military force?

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Federal Drive

Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer: Solutions for the all-volunteer military

Hiring a new employee or recruitment process

On DoD

Where diversity initiatives are still falling short in national security jobs

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis meets with Fikri Işık, the minister of national defence for Turkey, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2017. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr)

Defense News

It's uncertain who will be on the DoD chopping block with new government reforms

John Pendleton

Federal Drive

DoD seeks guidance from new administration on overseas contingency fund

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Federal Drive

Amy Schafer: Sequestration putting Marine Corps lives in danger

Vincent Viola

Army

Viola may be what the Army needs, experts say

John McCaiin

Defense

Trump reinvigorates capability vs. capacity debate

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Defense

Lawmakers demand answers on DIUx plan

Federal Drive

These are the big drivers of waste in defense modernization