Defense Department
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A congressionally-mandated study finds that although there has been an uptick in bid protests in recent years, no evidence exists that companies are filing them willy-nilly.
January 04, 2018 -
In 2018, the Navy is implementing new sleep and ship deployment schedules for its 7th Fleet after four major accidents in the prior year.
December 29, 2017 -
Secretary David Shulkin and many in Congress want to see more care delivered by local, community networks rather than in large, distant VA hospitals.
December 28, 2017 -
Army plans to assemble a vendor consortium with the goal of conducting 6-24 cyber prototyping projects a year, each within 30 days.
December 28, 2017 -
DoD used planned system outage to prepare for transition to new TRICARE contractors, changes to health benefits
December 27, 2017 -
The Navy will no longer discharge sailors who fail its physical fitness assessment, and is cancelling early-out programs that let sailors leave the military voluntarily, steps officials say are required by a "growing Navy."
December 26, 2017 -
Audit finds more than 250 ways in which DoD's Qatar base violates the department's own safety standards, similar to recent findings at other overseas installations.
December 26, 2017 -
An integrated team of Booz Allen Hamilton subject matter experts discuss how data science and advanced analytics are transforming the Defense Department's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) enterprise. December 26, 2017
December 21, 2017 -
Alfred Rivera, currently the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency's development and business center, will retire Jan. 4 after a 35-year government career.
December 21, 2017 -
DoD's adoption of a new electronic health record is a major driver for a bevy of other upgrades to health IT in the military health system, including a new, worldwide virtual private network and common desktop.
December 20, 2017 -
Christine Fox, former acting deputy administrator of defense, tells Gigi Schumm to remind women that a successful career often comes from just showing up at the right time.
December 20, 2017 -
Military households will only see a $10 increase on average in basic allowance for housing pay.
December 19, 2017 -
A new analysis of DoD contract data shows serious impacts across the Defense industrial base because of spending cuts, including indications that thousands of firms exited the industry entirely.
December 18, 2017 -
Acknowledging years of frustrations, the Army says 2018 is the "year of delivery" for its electronic warfare force, which is about to be subsumed into its cyber branch.
December 14, 2017 -
How do audits improve the overall readiness of the Department of Defense’s mission capabilities? Find out this week on Off the Shelf when host Roger Waldron discusses the issue with a team of Booz Allen subject matter experts. December 12, 2017
December 12, 2017