Defense Department
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The Army is beginning its first experiment in fast-tracking the officer accession pipeline for civilians with cyber skills. But it's proceeding cautiously: only five new officers per year.
December 12, 2017 -
Borrowing from an existing exemption for foreign military sales, DoD wants more flexibility to waive its requirement for vendors to supply cost and pricing data in domestic procurements.
December 12, 2017 -
New leaders in Defense Department IT: Essye Miller is named acting DoD CIO and Rear Adm. Nancy Norton will be DISA director.
December 12, 2017 -
Pentagon officials said Thursday that they have tweaked their government shutdown contingency plans since the last time one occurred in 2013, but emphasized that there is little they can do to stave off a shutdown's most damaging effects.
December 07, 2017 -
Just days before the expiration of the latest continuing resolution, Navy officials say the last several years of budgeting-by-CR have already wasted $4 billion.
December 05, 2017 -
What are the current impediments to DoD contracting? Find out when Dee Lee, current chair of the Section 809 panel and former OFPP administrator, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. December 4, 2017
December 04, 2017 -
A new policy allows mobile devices in some secure areas if it can be justified as needed for the mission.
November 30, 2017 -
Sesame Workshop and DoD pair up to help military families develop coping mechanisms for life after deployment and other challenges.
November 28, 2017 -
Marines still aspire to let troops bring their own devices to work, but the corps' top IT official says its current mobility strategy is "on the wrong trajectory."
November 28, 2017 Derek Weeks, VP and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how software development has changed in the last ten years. November 21, 2017
November 20, 2017-
The first users of DoD's new electronic health record call the system "life-changing," but several years remain before it's deployed worldwide.
November 20, 2017 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says if you're hoping for a $40,000 buyout from your agency, you can forget about it, unless you work for DoD.
November 17, 2017 -
A provision in the annual defense bill mandates a new Pentagon analysis of current personnel policies and whether they're harming officer retention.
November 15, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon said it has eliminated thousands of cybersecurity glitches over the past year thanks to hundreds of hackers around the world.
November 13, 2017 -
U.S. Transportation Command has begun what may well be the most aggressive cloud computing migration the Defense Department has ever attempted, both in terms of its scale and of its pace.
November 13, 2017