Defense Department
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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 -
President Donald Trump's 2020 budget request would give the Justice Department $72 million to fund stronger enforcement of immigration laws and reduce the nation's backlog of asylum cases.
March 13, 2019 -
DoD's civilian workforce would grow modestly under 2020 budget, and up to 15,000 health care positions would be converted to civilian jobs in coming years.
March 13, 2019 -
The Defense Department has approved a new policy that will largely bar transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex
March 12, 2019 -
The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal for government spending gives a big boost to the Pentagon and other security-related agencies, while calling for a cut of more than $2.7 trillion in federal civilian spending over the next ten years.
March 12, 2019 -
Members of Congress may be rude, but the Government Accountability Office, the federal oversight agency, sticks to the facts.
March 11, 2019