Defense Department
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This week, the Department of Defense launched the Defense Civilian Training Corps, a scholarship for service program designed to modernize the civilian acquisition workforce in partnership with higher education.
June 09, 2023 -
While the federal contracting world was worrying about a giant but slow-moving contractor cybersecurity requirement from the Defense Department, Veterans Affairs went ahead with a doozy of its own.
June 08, 2023 -
Photochemical scientists from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, together with an R & D company, have developed — for the Defense Department — lenses that go from light-to-dark and dark-to light, in the blink of an eye.
May 23, 2023 -
Perhaps you have heard of CMMC, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Now in its 2.0 version, it is supposed to lay minimum cybersecurity standards on contractors doing business with the Defense Department.
May 10, 2023 -
The Pentagon’s CIO’s office wants to better quantify its IT user experience problems and find solutions.
May 09, 2023 -
Agencies are honing in on how best to secure software and gain better visibility into their suppliers. We talk to leaders from DoD, FDA, GSA, NASA and State to reveal how agencies are meeting demands for visibility into their vendors’ cyber practices.
March 29, 2023 -
Agencies have new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management to implement a federal rotational cyber workforce program, which will officially launch this November.
March 21, 2023 -
From cloud computing contracts to Defense business systems, the DoD CIO’s office wants to help components retire technical debt, improve integration and reduce duplication. We get a first-hand account of what’s planned from DoD’s Lily Zeleke.
March 21, 2023 -
The Defense Department is testing out an artificial intelligence tool to help the agency write contracts and speed up the federal acquisition process.
February 09, 2023 -
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department are expanding an arrangement to foster new companies with national security technology. The latest joint effort is called the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative.
February 02, 2023 -
Two of the top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading colleagues in calling on the VA to postpone future rollouts of its new, multibillion dollar Electronic Health Record until improvements are made.
January 31, 2023 -
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 harm behaviors," and will eventually reach an end strength of 2,000 personnel.
November 29, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, just when you thought you had heard the last of DoD's controversial JEDI cloud contract, there's another twist.
October 26, 2022 -
Contractors are nervous about the continuing resolution the government is operating under since Saturday
October 04, 2022 -
Services contractors are wondering just what their options are now that the Biden administration has lost an appeal of a federal court ruling. The ruling upheld an injunction against contractor vaccine mandates.
September 07, 2022