Defense Department

DoD plans to hire 2,000 personnel for ‘first of its kind’ workforce tackling wellness issues

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks says DoD is building up a “first of its kind” prevention workforce that will address a range of “stress and…

Defense News

DoD

Glenn Fine, inspector general, Defense Department

DoD’s JEDI cloud contract may have had some unresolved issues

Federal Newscast

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Federal contractors are already thinking about December 16, when the continuing resolution expires

Contracting

Contractors are happy the vaccine mandate has mostly evaporated

Contracting

Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase, DOD

Exclusive

OMB names DoD’s suicide prevention director as chief statistician to lead data goals

Big Data

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VA looking into ‘root cause’ of EHR outage that also hit DoD, Coast Guard

IT Modernization

DoD CDO sees leadership shakeup as agency ‘doubling down’ on data goals

Defense

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to promote his

Energy Dept. backs 17 green federal building upgrades as ‘preview’ of future spending

Facilities/Construction

DoD outlines steps to stand up zero trust program office

Defense

FILE - This Jan. 4, 2020 file photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. The push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the congressionally chartered Naming Commission said Friday, May 21, 2021. The initial public focus was on Army bases such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and Fort Benning, Georgia, named for Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning, who served under Lee. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Defense Department seeking public input for renaming bases that honor Confederate leaders

Federal Newscast

The General Services Administration (GSA) building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. General Service Administrator Emily Murphy, the head of the obscure federal government agency that is holding up Joe Biden's presidential transition, appeared to know she might be facing a messy situation after the votes came in. Prior to Nov. 3, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, 77, a man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier during the contested 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Barram said he advised her to

GSA earns top marks under FITARA 12 scorecard

Congress

An update on key DoD and VA procurement programs

Shelby Oakley, a director in the Government Accountability Office’s Contracting and National Security Acquisitions team, joins host Roger Waldron on this…

Off the Shelf

A defense acquisition professor’s advice on DoD innovation

David Riel, winner of the Maj. Gen. Harry Greene Awards for Acquisition Writing, speaks about incentives the Department of Defense should use to attract…

Acquisition

GAO: Cost of cleaning up PFAS chemicals is only going to increase

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office estimates how much it’s going to cost for the Defense Department to continue investigating and cleaning up the so called “forever chemicals.”