National Guard
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In today's Federal Newscast, the White House said its regulatory reform efforts saved $23 billion in fiscal 2018.
October 18, 2018 -
The National Guard chief says the Tyndall Air Force Base is 100 percent uninhabitable.
October 12, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the president of the Nation Border Patrol Council tells the LA Times deploying the National Guard to the U.S. southern border has been a waste of time this go around.
May 28, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program and the Cloud Security Alliance announce the creation of FedSTAR to offer mutual recognition between the two security programs.
May 15, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department will be sending up to 4,000 troops to U.S.-Mexico border to assist the Homeland Security Department.
April 17, 2018 -
National Guard units are ramping up their defensive cyber capabilities across the board, and will soon be able to quickly respond to cyber attacks in their home states and territories.
April 16, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Office of Management and Budget weighs the costs and benefits of federal regulations.
February 27, 2018 -
Federal News Radio shares federal photos daily highlighting the work of government agencies and federal workers. From one administration to another, here are twelve photos shared in the 2017 gallery that represent celebrations of people and progress through times of trial and triumph.
December 29, 2017 -
Will Congress back up the courageous work of first responders?
September 05, 2017 -
As President Trump arrived in Houston Tuesday afternoon, he joined many federal employees already at work providing relief to hurricane victims.
August 29, 2017 -
While the Defense Department balances the threat of sequestration with additional spending money from the White House, some members of Congress are looking at ways to support military members and their families.
March 22, 2017 -
When it comes to defending the country from cyber attack, Defense officials have made abundantly clear that they plan to leverage the military’s National Guard and reserve components as much as possible, including, most recently, by tasking the Army Guard and Reserve to build 21 cyber teams on top of the 133 U.S. Cyber Command had planned as part of its Cyber Mission Force.
February 14, 2017 -
The Defense Department is trying to make benefits administration simpler for reservists. Currently, service members in reserve ranks have more than 30 duty statuses to wade through to figure out what benefits they are entitled to. Often changes in orders lead to gaps in benefits. DoD has a new plan to simplify all of that, and expand benefits.
January 24, 2017 -
DoD presented a plan to lawmakers last month to consolidate 32 reserve duty statuses into just four. For years reservists received differing pay and benefits depending on which of the duty statuses their orders fell under, causing a bureaucratic mess and gaps in benefits.
January 16, 2017 -
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it expects to reach final decisions by July on each of the more than 17,000 cases in which soldiers were paid large bonuses to re-enlist during the heights of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only to be told years later that they must give the money back.
January 04, 2017