Coast Guard
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The Navy and Coast Guard found out that guarantees aren't worth the deck plate they're engraved on when they ended up paying to correct defects that should have been covered. Michelle Mackin, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about GAO's review of six shipbuilding programs.
March 17, 2016 -
Pentagon Solutions talks to Charles Tiefer, law professor at the University of Baltimore, and Kelly Sayler, associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
March 14, 2016 -
President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal gives the Defense Department $524 billion, plus another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations.
February 15, 2016 -
The National Security Cutter is at the heart of a long-running effort to modernize the Coast Guard. Three of the ships have already been built and deployed. The Coast Guard, with test and evaluation help from the Navy, says the ships are effective and suitable for its mission. The Government Accountability Office is saying, not so fast. Michele Mackin, director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, fills in all the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 12, 2016 -
Banged-up cars and seizing ship engines. A slice of federal programs isn't going as planned.
February 08, 2016 -
Managers within the Homeland Security Department's headquarters say the Secretary's "Unity of Effort" initiative is working better for them than it is for individual agencies. Component agencies say unity programs have little impact on their missions.
November 11, 2015 -
The Coast Guard is seeing many of its projects growing into programs of record with acquisition plans and contracts that are both on schedule and on budget thanks to a new strategy.
August 25, 2015 -
The new Coast Guard chief acquisition officer is in place. Rear Adm. Joe Vojvodich is assistant commandant for acquisition at the Coast Guard and the chief acquisition officer. His portfolio includes three domains: aviation programs, surface programs and C4ISR. Admiral Vojvodich tells In Depth with Francis Rose about some of his current — and future — priorities in the surface programs portfolio.
August 24, 2015 -
For people in, or going into the military, the benefits programs — while excellent in some cases — are a mystery. Many people don't realize that members of the uniformed military services are eligible for the government's long term care insurance program.
August 19, 2015 -
Secretary Jeh Johnson is reorganizing the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) and elevating the role of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC). He named Andy Ozment and John Felker to run the NCCIC.
August 10, 2015 -
Adm. Paul Zukunft says he’s highly optimistic that more money is coming to help recapitalize his fleet. The House and Senate have yet to agree to a 2016 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, but he said his discussions with leaders of both parties from the two congressional appropriations committees suggest his service will get a robust plus-up.
August 10, 2015 -
The Coast Guard celebrates its 225th birthday this year. View our photo gallery to see how it's celebrating.
August 04, 2015 -
Even state of the art cyber protection can\'t prevent employee error. The insider threat is at the nucleus of the Coast Guard\'s newly revised cyber security strategy. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review what else the strategy encompasses and how cyber impacts the Coast Guard.
June 22, 2015 -
Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the Coast Guard, released a new cyber strategy for his command. He says that the weakest link an agency faces in protecting its IT systems is poor cyber hygiene by employees.
June 16, 2015 -
Defense budget planners debating the Overseas Contingency Operations fund are forgetting about one major national security service. The Coast Guard has an annual budget of about $10 billion a year. And its active duty roster is smaller than the number of employees at the New York City Police Department. Retired Rear Adm. Terry McKnight is the former commander of the Expeditionary Strike Group. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that no other service \"does more with less\" than the Coast Guard.
June 11, 2015