Defense Department
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House lawmakers are denouncing Defense Department plans to use military funds to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall
March 26, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, up to $1 billion from DoD is now available to help support the Homeland Security Department's drug enforcement efforts at the southern border.
March 26, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general released its review of the agency's implementation of the new Forever GI bill.
March 25, 2019 -
In a recognition that smaller firms don't have the infrastructure to defend themselves against sophisticated attacks, DoD will experiment with a secure cloud approach to defending sensitive information.
March 25, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, former venture capitalist Michael Kratsios is tapped to become the next U.S. chief technology officer.
March 22, 2019 -
Members of the Defense Innovation Board described their initial set of recommendations to fix DoD software acquisition. The Pentagon said it plans to start implementing them right away.
March 22, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Trump administration says it now sees an opportunity to build on many of the 14 cross-agency priority goals outlined in the President's Management Agenda.
March 21, 2019 -
Matt Shabat, the U.S. strategy manager for Glasswall Solutions, makes the case for how using a risk management framework can lead to real savings that agencies can use to move off legacy systems.
March 20, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is changing how it verifies that companies are eligible to do business with or receive assistance from the government.
March 19, 2019 -
U.S. Cyber Command said the new Cyber Excepted Service has cut its time-to-hire by 60 percent. But so far, DoD has only used the new personnel system for a few hundred positions.
March 19, 2019 -
Each military service plans a substantial boost in facility sustainment funding in 2020, but far from enough to erase a years-long backlog of deferred projects.
March 19, 2019 -
The Pentagon and its inspector general said recent discoveries of tens of millions of dollars in uncatalogued parts offer concrete evidence of the audit's direct connection to military readiness.
March 19, 2019 -
President Donald Trump released his budget request for fiscal year 2020. What's in it for DoD? Find out when Jon Harper of National Defense Magazine joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access.
March 18, 2019 -
An audit of a sample of DoD's contracts with Transdigm found half the company's earnings were "excess" profit, but the inspector general said the findings highlight a need for broad policy changes.
March 15, 2019 -
An assessment commissioned by the Secretary of the Navy returned a stinging assessment of the Navy Department's cybersecurity posture.
March 14, 2019