Marine Corps

  • Contractors building facilities for the Navy and Marine Corps have to offer up some green elements in their blueprints. WFED\'s Jared Serbu reports.

    May 23, 2011
  • Federal News Radio has compiled a list of important links and resources on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure.

    May 09, 2011
  • The Marine Corps has a message for the information and cyber technology industries: Unless their new communications and computing solutions can be deployed in a tip-of-the-spear environment, don\'t even bother to call.

    April 29, 2011
  • The Pentagon is under fire from investigators who are \"concerned\" about a weapons program that\'s over budget and past its deadline.

    April 06, 2011
  • The Marine Corps is going green to save lives rather than to save the planet.

    March 22, 2011
  • The Army and Marine Corps are both in the early phases of deploying logistics accountability systems that will replace a collection of disconnected, stovepiped IT systems and processes that have grown up since the 1960s. Though the systems share the same objective, they were made by different vendors, prompting questions from one member of Congress.

    March 22, 2011
  • The essions will include a slideshow detailing what has and has not changed.

    March 07, 2011
  • Terry Halvorsen, who was named the Department of the Navy chief information officer in November, told attendees at a San Diego conference that his organization would seek to build more effective, efficient IT structures by leveraging the size and capabilities of both the Navy and Marine Corps. He also predicted the department\'s IT operation would have to meet its responsibilities with fewer people and fewer resources than it now has.

    March 04, 2011
  • While the military, FBI and Justice Department are working on the next steps for recently captured pirates, what should we be doing to stop the problem in the first place? We ask Tom Wilkerson with the U.S. Naval Institute.

    February 25, 2011
  • About 80 percent of the Corps\' tactical vehicle budget would have gone to the costly program.

    January 14, 2011
  • The top U.S. military officer said Monday he was startled by a public panning of the proposal to lift the military\'s ban on gays from the head of the Marine Corps.

    November 08, 2010
  • The service will issue the first of five RFPs in a matter of weeks for cybersecurity services. The other solicitations are coming over the next year for everything from enterprise software to transport services. More than three-quarters of the users said they are pleased with the NMCI, according to the most recent customer satisfaction survey.

    October 14, 2010
  • The Navy and Marine Corps will begin splitting up its massive NMCI contract this fall. The service announced Wednesday it will issue a request for proposals for cybersecurity services in a matter of weeks.

    October 13, 2010
  • Learn more in today\'s cybersecurity update.

    October 12, 2010
  • The Defense Department and its services plan to hire a total of 1,000 cyber professionals each year over the next three years, Gen. Keith Alexander tells a House committee. Alexander said getting the right people in place to move the DoD Cyber Command into an operational stage is among his highest priorities. DoD and the services must look at how best to retain these professionals once they work for the military.

    September 24, 2010