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Defense

Marine Corps completes 'wall-to-wall' barracks inspection. Here's what's next

The Marine Corps recently completed its service-wide barracks inspection. Now it can finally get after the problems that have plagued barracks for decades.

Defense

DoD has ‘a lot of work to do’ to fix military housing

Defense

Military families' housing benefits lag as rents explode

Federal Newscast

IG says 'inconsistent' Pentagon policy on active shooters could make things worse

Defense

Defense Department sites are rife with poisons in nearby groundwater

Air Force

Meet the small team that handles the Air Force's radioactive waste

Space Operations

DoD IG says SPACECOM basing decision was legal, large parts of rationale remain redacted

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova speaks with refugees outside a processing center in Lviv, Ukraine on March 22, 2022. She has stationed prosecutors at refugee centers across the country and at border crossings to extract evidence from millions of displaced Ukrainians and register them as victims potentially eligible for compensation. (AP Photo/Erika Kinetz)

Federal Newscast

Federal employees can now send portion of their pay to help Ukrainian refugees

FILE - In this Friday, July 30, 2004 file photo, the U.S.S. Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton Conn., after its first sea trials. A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Jack Sauer, File)

Defense

House readiness panel 'not messing around' on deteriorating DoD depots

FILE - This evidence photo from the criminal complaint of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts v. Ashley Bigsbee for illegal possession of a stolen firearm on Nov. 15, 2015, in Suffolk, Mass., shows one of ten M11 semiautomatic handguns that former Army Reserve member James Morales stole from the Lincoln Stoddard Army Reserve Center in Worcester, Mass. Overall, AP has found that at least 2,000 firearms from the Army, Marines, Navy or Air Force were lost or stolen during the 2010s. (U.S. District Court for Massachusetts via AP)

Defense

Congress plans fixes for US military's AWOL weapons problems

Maj. Gen. Chris Mohan

Defense

How the Army plans to deal with 'tons' of stuff brought back from Afghanistan

Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, gives an opening statement during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss vaccines and protecting public health during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Federal Newscast

One of the nation's top public health officials is calling it a career

A teacher, left, has her so-called "Green Pass" checked by a school worker as she arrives at the "Isacco Newton" high school, in Rome, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. After most of the last year spent with high schools in remote learning or lock-down, students are going back in classrooms, with all school workers having to present a so-called "Green Pass" that proves they has received at least one vaccine dose in the last nine months, recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months or tested negative in the previous 48 hours, to access the institutes. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Federal Newscast

Agencies looking for industry ideas on tracking vaccinations among their employees

FILE - This Jan. 4, 2020 file photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. The push to remove Confederate names from Pentagon properties, including storied Army posts, could eventually affect hundreds of items and facilities, the chair of the congressionally chartered Naming Commission said Friday, May 21, 2021. The initial public focus was on Army bases such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and Fort Benning, Georgia, named for Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning, who served under Lee. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Federal Newscast

Defense Department seeking public input for renaming bases that honor Confederate leaders

A military policeman closes a gate at JBSA-Lackland Air Force Base gate, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in San Antonio. The Air Force was put on lockdown as police and military officials say they searched for two people suspected of shooting into the base from outside. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Federal Newscast

Some military installations are reinstituting COVID-19 travel restrictions

James Balocki and Tom Temin

Navy

Extreme weather threats prompt Navy to ensure energy independence, facility climate resilience

A U.S. military aide carries the "President's emergency satchel," also know as "the football," with the nuclear launch codes, walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, to join President Joe Biden for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Federal Newscast

DoD looking into what happens if the most important briefcase in the world goes missing

firefighter, PFAS

Federal Newscast

GAO: Cost of cleaning up PFAS chemicals is only going to increase

FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, traffic flows through the main gate past a welcome sign in Fort Hood, Texas. A new study finds that female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018. The study by RAND Corporation was released Friday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Army

Study: Texas bases lead Army posts in risk of sexual assault

TSA, AFGE agreement

Federal Newscast

Bill to give TSA officers General Schedule pay gets Senate companion

firefighter, PFAS

Defense

Cleaning up hazardous chemicals, unexploded munitions from military bases not likely to wrap up soon

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rashawn Duffy, 37th Training Wing Detachment 5 military training instructor, presents a coin to an Airman during the basic military training coining ceremony outside of Erwin Manor at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 14, 2020. Nearly 60 Airmen from the 37th TRW Detachment 5 completed the six-week basic military training course. Due to safety concerns stemming from COVID-19, the Air Force sent new recruits to Keesler to demonstrate a proof of concept to generate the force at multiple locations during contingencies. The flight was the first to graduate BMT at Keesler since 1968. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)

Defense

Only 40 military bases still have COVID restrictions in place as of May 5

Loren Duggan Bloomberg Government

Congress

Congress is delving deep into some nitty-gritty governmental issues