Navy
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Navy could announce 21 weeks of paternity leave as soon as next month, but the boost would require a change in DoD policy.
January 17, 2018 -
Navy officials are talking about how the bridges have become "Frankensteins." So much new gear has been crammed in, the crews can lose track of what's going on.
January 16, 2018 -
Although failures of basic seamanship and training were largely to blame for last year's collisions, the Navy says it also needs to fix basic problems with the equipment it's provided to its deck officers.
January 12, 2018 -
In 2018, the Navy is implementing new sleep and ship deployment schedules for its 7th Fleet after four major accidents in the prior year.
December 29, 2017 -
The Navy will no longer discharge sailors who fail its physical fitness assessment, and is cancelling early-out programs that let sailors leave the military voluntarily, steps officials say are required by a "growing Navy."
December 26, 2017 -
Just days before the expiration of the latest continuing resolution, Navy officials say the last several years of budgeting-by-CR have already wasted $4 billion.
December 05, 2017 -
Sarkis Tatigian, 94, just marked his 75th anniversary as a Navy employee, but says he has no immediate plans to retire.
November 09, 2017 -
The Senate Armed Services chairman says he'll withhold acquisition approvals from DoD programs unless the department completes its first financial audit.
November 08, 2017 -
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has reopened a criminal investigation into the operation of an off-the-books law enforcement agency at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, details of which were first disclosed by Federal News Radio.
October 30, 2017 -
The Navy plans to release a draft RFP for an enterprise cloud contract by the end of 2017, saying most systems — including secret ones — will move to the cloud.
October 10, 2017 -
The Navy says it's writing the next version of its Next Generation Enterprise Network contract so that it can offload email and other services to DISA's forthcoming commercial offering for unified communications, whenever it becomes available.
September 27, 2017 -
The Navy knows it will need to spend more than $9 billion to renovate its shipyards to meet its current missions. But it hasn't planned for that expenditure, and the Government Accountability Office says it may be a lowball estimate.
September 19, 2017 -
The Navy says there is still no evidence that cyber attacks played a role in the service's two deadly collisions with commercial vessels, but there are several reasons it's continuing to pursue that thread.
September 19, 2017 -
Navy knew it was "accepting risks" at least two years ago when it decided to press ahead with more demanding forward deployments in the Asia-Pacific, despite downward slide of routine maintenance and training.
September 08, 2017 -
In retrospect, it's a wonder the Navy hasn't had more accidents.
September 07, 2017