Navy
-
Amid "battle for talent" in the military's maintenance facilities, officials press for a relaxation of restrictions on hiring civilians
June 15, 2018 -
The Fincantieri Frigate is one of five semi-finalists in the US Navy’s FFG(X) (Guided-Missile Fast Frigate) competition.
May 29, 2018 -
The Navy wants to bring more small businesses into the fold to help foster research and innovation. The Small Business Innovation Research program assists businesses by streamlining the process to develop, test and implement technologies for use by warfighters. Robert Smith, director of SBIR, discussed this on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the 2018 Sea Air Space Expo in National Harbor, Maryland.
April 16, 2018 -
The service argues that in too many cases, the decision to pursue advanced educational degrees carries seriously negative career implications.
April 12, 2018 -
Mid-Atlantic general manager for Lyft, Stephen Taylor, discusses how his experience as a pilot for the Navy, and as an angel investor, prepared him for entrepreneurship. Taylor explains that sometimes, being an entrepreneur doesn't mean starting from scratch.
March 26, 2018 -
A one-page memo restructures the Navy Department's organizational chart, includes the elimination of the once-powerful office of the Navy CIO.
March 22, 2018 -
The Navy will test a new architecture that relies on web services and shared IT infrastructure in a combination of ashore and afloat clouds.
March 01, 2018 -
Undersecretary of the Navy Thomas Modly believes the key to implementing the new national defense strategy, not to mention prevailing in any future conflicts, is agility.
February 27, 2018 -
The Navy's eight new cloud "brokers" will mostly be in charge of setting their applications up for success, with strict oversight from Navy IT leaders.
February 23, 2018 -
Navy sees upcoming NGEN contract as opportunity to ‘rip and replace’ NMCI’s fundamental architectureThe Navy wants to use its multibillion dollar NGEN recompetition to reenginner its networks for more cloud-like services.
February 20, 2018 -
James Geurts, the new assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition believes the Navy can move faster than initially planned in its "cloud first" strategy.
February 09, 2018 -
Two years after consolidating cloud transition efforts within a single office, the Navy is taking an opposite tack, letting its system commands become their own "cloud brokers."
February 08, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General finds the agency has no centralized database to make sure suspended companies don't compete for new contracts.
January 30, 2018 -
The Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is the latest DoD organization to jump on the OTA bandwagon with an arrangement that would spend $100 million on 14 cyber technology areas.
January 30, 2018 -
Navy says all of its Japan-based ships are caught up on training, certification standards, a dramatic departure from a year ago.
January 19, 2018