Marine Corps
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When the Naval Academy graduated its first set of cybersecurity majors a year ago, the group included submariners, surface warfare experts, pilots and Marines. Many seemed destined for great careers. Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Retired Capt. Paul Tortora, director of the center for Cybersecurity Studies at the Academy, and Ensign Zac Dannelly, the top performer in that first graduating class, to find out how cybersecurity education is changing the Navy.
June 20, 2016 -
Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, racked up some frequent flier miles recently as he traveled from New York City to speak for the first time at the United Nations and then on to Vatican City to tour St. Peter's Basilica. While there, he spoke to members of the U.S. Military Seminary program.
June 20, 2016 -
Deborah Pierre-Louis, director of IT Security Policy, Liaison, and Training, Bureau of Information Resource Management, Department of State, discusses cybersecurity training, perimeter-based security, and security by design. June 14, 2016
June 13, 2016 -
Joining the military means you're prepared to put skin in the game, as the saying goes. More and more, that skin is adorned with ink.
June 10, 2016 -
A Bahrain owned company also saw a increases in government contracting, while GE and Verizon lost federal business.
June 07, 2016 -
DoD declined millions in savings to make sure dual military families continued getting current BAH funds.
June 03, 2016 -
Navy Secretary says the maritime services haven't devoted much attention to nuclear as a shore-side "alternative" energy option thus far, but it's time to start.
June 02, 2016 -
Service members with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury cannot separated be from the service without those conditions being taken into consideration, even in cases of misconduct.
June 01, 2016 -
The Navy is considering multisourcing its next NGEN contract.
May 27, 2016 -
In a step that may go some way toward reducing some of the red tape between the Defense Department and cloud computing vendors, the Department of the Navy (DoN) said last week that the Navy and Marine Corps can sign off on their own business cases for migrating to commercial cloud vendors without seeking higher-level approval.
May 23, 2016 -
Agency IT leaders bemoan restrictions with policy and the rapid speed of the Internet of Things environment as major barriers to deploying new commercial IoT devices in the field.
May 17, 2016 -
When the Defense Department announced its plan to upgrade most of its computers to Windows 10 by 2017, the Marine Corps, characteristically, said it would go first. But the smallest of the Defense services has run into problems.
May 12, 2016 -
Justice officials said former Marine Contracting Officer David Liu worked with two government contractors to exchange protected procurement information of competitors to rig the bidding process for a multimedia services Navy contract in Somalia.
May 09, 2016 -
Katherine Blakeley, research fellow for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss her new report on the seven areas to watch in the FY 2017 defense budget. April 29, 2016
April 26, 2016 -
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel delivered supplies in support of the Japanese government's relief effort following recent earthquakes near Kumamoto.
April 25, 2016