Navy

  • Capt. Duane Ashton, the program manager for unmanned systems in the Navy\'s program executive office for Littoral Combat Ships. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the new device and how it furthers Navy\'s trend toward using more unmanned vessels.

    October 21, 2011
  • Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.

    October 20, 2011
  • The Pentagon will soon announce winners of its latest round of grant funding to try out new energy technologies at its U.S. bases. The response from industry and other government agencies has been overwhelming, officials said.

    October 19, 2011
  • The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.

    October 17, 2011
  • The Navy is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to find alternatives to fossil fuels. A parallel effort aims to engrain energy efficiency into the way the service buys the ships and planes it will own for the next few decades.

    October 17, 2011
  • Navy auditors say that one in four test calls to sexual assault hotlines failed or were improperly handled, The Navy Times reports.

    October 10, 2011
  • More than a dozen construction companies won spots on a multiple-award Army construction contract, worth $499 million. The also awarded an $11 million contract to restore and modernize a building in Washington, D.C.

    October 05, 2011
  • The Morning Federal Newscast is a daily compilation of the stories you hear Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Amy Morris discuss throughout the show each day. The Newscast is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com users more information about the stories you hear on the air.

    October 04, 2011
  • The Navy has released its draft solicitation for its huge Next Generation Enterprise Network project, which replaces the current Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and could end up being the largest private IT network in the world. The draft RFP is the last step — and the last opportunity for industry to comment — before Navy issues a final RFP.

    October 04, 2011
  • The Navy calls the project the Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Underwater Vehicle.

    October 03, 2011
  • The Agriculture Department, the Energy Department and the Navy are turning to industry to try to leverage advanced technologies to produce a new generation of biofuels. A request for information they just issued says the private sector would have to match any federal funds the agencies spend. The three departments are willing to spend up to 500 million dollars to jumpstart an industry to produce fuels that could serve as drop-in replacements for jet fuel and diesel. The Navy is aiming to get half its energy from alternative sources by the year 2020.

    September 19, 2011
  • There\'s a new web portal for Navy and the Marine Corps. Learn more in today\'s DoD Report

    July 14, 2011
  • Vice Admiral Bill Burke and Vice Admiral Kevin McCoy told a House Armed Services Committee panel it took a lot of years to put the Navy\'s surface fleet in its current state and it will take a lot of time to fix it, according to DoD Buzz.

    July 13, 2011
  • Lesley Lykins is the Director of Emerging Media Integration for the Navy Office of Information.

    July 07, 2011