Defense Department
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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-
Defense Secretary Ash Carter says it’s time for an upgrade to the Goldwater-Nichols Act, but the Pentagon will need help from Congress.
April 12, 2016 -
Assuming the Army completes its planned drawdown to 450,000 active duty soldiers by the end of next year, the service will own and operate 21 percent more real estate and facilities than it can conceivably put to productive military use.
April 11, 2016 -
The Defense Department is taking a serious look at overhauling its process for accrediting commercial cloud computing products as secure-enough for military use.
April 11, 2016 -
Active-duty service members and veterans with disabilities tried out adaptive winter sports during the 2016 National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic. This is the annual event's 30th year.
April 08, 2016 -
Generals say current analyses show the U.S. will need more land forces for future conflicts, precisely at the time the Army is shrinking to its smallest size since before World War II.
April 07, 2016 -
The Comptroller General for the U.S. says the government’s financial reporting is unreliable thanks to Defense Department financial management issues, improper payment reporting and problems compiling agency financial statements.
April 06, 2016 -
In a marathon, you're done in three or four hours. The Best Ranger runs from 6 a.m. on a Friday morning until sometime around 4 or 5 Sunday afternoon. No rest or sleep
April 06, 2016 -
Temporary employees at the Defense Department face many hurdles when they try to move to full-time. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his proposal to encourage DoD managers to move temporary employees when full-time positions open up.
April 01, 2016 -
A reduction in soldiers' housing allowances cut revenues of private companies that operate military housing. The Army may allow those firms to assess rental costs to make up part of the difference.
April 01, 2016 -
Cheating on tests by the nation's nuclear warriors, bribe-taking for military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now a nearly five-year sentence for a flag-rank naval officer for steering contracts for ship provisioning in the infamous Fat Leonard scandal. Is corruption on the rise in the military? Brian Bouffard, a former JAG staff member, answers the question on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 31, 2016 -
DoD's number-two official points to Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center as the first operational example of the Pentagon's "third offset" strategy.
March 31, 2016