Department of the Navy

AFGE set to negotiate after more feds overseas opt for representation

After about 200 more federal employees in Germany voted to unionize, negotiations are about to get underway between AFGE and the U.S. Army.

Unions

Navy’s new council aims to mitigate foreign investment risks

Navy

Proposal to reform pay for blue-collar feds gets committee approval, but concerns remain

Pay

Navy discourages military generative AI, LLM usage

Artificial Intelligence

Cyber Leaders Exchange 2023: Navy panel on making zero trust a reality, not just an objective

Technology

CISO Handbook: Department of the Navy

Federal Insights

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5 years later, MSPB releases results of federal sexual harassment study

Workforce

Defense Cyber Strategies in a Zero Trust World

Federal Insights

This Sept. 26, 2022, satellite image released by NASA shows Hurricane Ian growing stronger as it barreled toward Cuba. Ian was forecast to hit the western tip of Cuba as a major hurricane and then become an even stronger Category 4 with top winds of 140 mph (225 km/h) over warm Gulf of Mexico waters before striking Florida. (NASA Worldview/Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP)

US Navy moves ships and aircraft out of the path of Hurricane Ian

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this May 27, 2021, file photo, military personnel participate in a NATO training exercise on board the UK Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth off the coast of Portugal. With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear submarines, and the launch of a European strategy for greater engagement in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. and its allies are becoming growingly assertive in their approach toward a rising China. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida, File)

DoD moves forward with plans to help victims of sexual assault as reports hit all-time high

Defense

Social Security plans to expand workforce diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility

Federal Newscast

KINGS BAY, Ga., (August 4, 2021) James Balocki, (center left) Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations & Environment , and Deborah Loomis, (center right) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy for Climate Change, are given a safety brief from Capt. Miguel Dieguez, (left) public works officer of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, and Cmdr. Marcel Duplantier, (right) resident officer in charge of construction Trident, during a tour. The Kings Bay Dry Dock is currently undergoing a $596 million in preparation for Columbia class submarines and to extend its life into the 2080s. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Xavier Saldana/Released)

Department of the Navy’s new strategy for climate challenges expands scope

Deborah Loomis, senior adviser for climate change to the Secretary of the Navy, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more about it.

Navy

IBM, IBM X-Force, incident response, hacking, red teaming

The head of federal at IBM has a multi-sided view of federal digital transformation

IBM federal has been many things over the years. Lately, it’s been headed by a man with a unique perspective, an Army career officer, then chief information…

Contracting

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 10, 2009) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Ryan Allshouse uses the intrusion detection system to monitor unclassified network activity from the automated data processing workspace aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). IDS is part of the integrated shipboard network system and serves as an important computer network defense enabler protecting the unclassified shipboard network from cyber attack. (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released)

How the Navy is dealing with a heightened cybersecurity threat situation

Navy

Even an organization as big and armed as the United States Navy doesn’t take the ransomware threat for granted.