Navy
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President Obama has nominated Adm. Michelle Howard to be the next head of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and Allied Joint Forces Command. Howard would be the first woman to reach the rank of four-star admiral.
May 20, 2016 -
The Navy is in the very early stages of a program that aims to overhaul and replace more than 100 systems and applications which currently handle ship maintenance, many of which date to the 1960s.
May 19, 2016 -
Navy has asked for legislative permission to start some new sailors' careers at higher ranks. Some with high levels of in-demand skills would potentially start at the level of captain.
May 18, 2016 -
The Navy is trying to “revolutionize” the meals it feeds its sailors, both ashore and while they’re underway. To do that, they turned to sailors themselves, and to academia, using the “design thinking process” to help shape the future of the Navy's chow. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Lt. Cmdr. Keith Capper, director of the Navy Food Service, and Jennifer Person-Whippo, a dietician in the Navy Supply Systems Command, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 18, 2016 -
From fighters to carriers to submarines, the Navy wants to network its weapons systems so their warfighting capability is greater than the sum of its parts. That task falls to Rear Adm. Michael Manazir, who was appointed just last week as the deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems. Before that, he was director of the Navy’s Air Warfare Division. Manazir spoke on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 18, 2016 -
If you've got a king-sized bed to cover, a double-sized blanket won't cover it. But the Navy won't get an embroidered, quilted, king-sized blanket in the foreseeable future.
May 18, 2016 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin interviews military commanders and agency leaders at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Expo.
May 17, 2016 -
It's the Navy's job to protect American interests anywhere on the globe. That job is quite a bit different than it was in the Cold War, when the nation had different strategic and budget priorities. Adm. John Richardson is seven months into his post as Chief of Naval Operations. Richardson joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 17, 2016 -
Technological superiority has always been an important advantage for the U.S. armed forces. Leading technology starts with research. For the Navy, research is the purview of Dr. John Burrow, deputy assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation. He spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 17, 2016 -
Adm. Michelle Howard joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm to share her amazing and inspiring personal journey.
May 04, 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 -
The Fleet Readiness Center East in Cherry Point, North Carolina, seems to produce excellent federal managers. Sue Thatch, who oversees integrated logistics support there, had been designated manager of the year by the Federal Managers Association. She joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 22, 2016 -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA ) has developed a 130-foot boat that can prowl the seas unmanned. Military officials think it can be effective in detecting submarines. Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, gives Federal Drive with Tom Temin an assessment of whether this is where we're headed.
April 19, 2016 -
Cheating on tests by the nation's nuclear warriors, bribe-taking for military contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now a nearly five-year sentence for a flag-rank naval officer for steering contracts for ship provisioning in the infamous Fat Leonard scandal. Is corruption on the rise in the military? Brian Bouffard, a former JAG staff member, answers the question on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 31, 2016 -
Hundreds of federal employees say their agencies provided them with at least some information on changes in commuter benefits. In an exclusive Federal News Radio survey, government workers said that information varied widely when it came to when and what their agency said, and whether employees would receive the benefits at all.
March 29, 2016