Defense Department
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Some Defense analysts believe changes being considered in Congress ignore the fundamental problems in the DoD acquisition system. Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank, spoke with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about why he's a critic of the proposal.
April 28, 2016 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter called the House proposal "deeply troubling," saying it would pay for additional troops and pay boosts at the expense of long-term military readiness and budget stability.
April 28, 2016 -
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to introduce a package of bills aimed at government reform. The legislative bundle includes extra protection for whistleblowers as well as barriers to prevent abuse of administrative leave and awarding bonuses to misbehaving employees.
April 27, 2016 -
For the past two years, the Defense Department has been heightening its focus on the subject of professionalism: In 2014, then-secretary Chuck Hagel appointed DoD’s first-ever senior advisor for military professionalism in the wake of a…
April 27, 2016 -
The Defense Department is turning to industry to take over the management of its portfolio of mobile IT services. Officials say rapid growth in the number of DoD-issued mobile devices has made the current, government-managed approach unsustainable. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 26, 2016 -
Most planning documents about defending the homeland from foreign threats pre-date the cyber era, leaving some confusion about which element of the military would be in charge during a cyber attack. DoD says it's addressing those discrepancies.
April 25, 2016 -
Three recent bills have been introduced in the House and Senate that address issues of administrative leave, Defense acquisition, and federal real property.
April 22, 2016 -
DoD’s chief information officer and his counterparts from several friendly nations will meet in the United Kingdom for the latest in a series of meetings that have been ongoing for the past year.
April 22, 2016 -
The under secretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics assured lawmakers that the DoD is keeping a close eye on the cybersecurity measures of its vendors.
April 22, 2016 -
The director of the Defense Information Systems Agency said DoD needs new tools to grapple with the fact that cyber adversaries have become much more brazen in recent years.
April 20, 2016 -
DoD says its “conservative” estimates show that it is paying to maintain 22 percent more military base infrastructure than it can put to practical use.
April 18, 2016 -
Dr. David Shulkin, the undersecretary for health at VA, says the agency needs better integration with private sector medical providers in order to "re-engineer" the way veterans access treatment.
April 14, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
April 13, 2016 -
Each year, the Defense Department awards grants to some of the top researchers and engineers, who are known as National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. Melissa Flagg, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, and chemist Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University, a faculty fellow specializing in nanotechnology, talked about the program on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 13, 2016 Federal News Radio reporters Scott Maucione and Nicole Ogrysko join host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss whether Congress will take action to change the personnel systems at the Pentagon and the VA. April 13, 2016
April 12, 2016