Navy
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The Navy is overhauling the way it trains its sailors. It's incorporating more virtual environments and distance learning so sailors can eventually get the training they need and not spend long periods away from their duty stations. It's all part of the long term effort known as Sailor 2025. Joining Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update on this effort, Capt. Bill McKinley, commanding officer of the Center for Surface Combat Systems.
July 28, 2016 -
The 2017 NDAA Section 800, which deals with acquisition reform, has 50 subsections. This year it had 99.
July 27, 2016 -
The Army, Navy, and Air Force on Monday released their supplier performance ratings shortlists for 2016 — an honor roll for contractors' business units scored highly by the military acquisition community.
July 26, 2016 -
The Navy released a request for information flagging cloud computing as one of the IT domains that it may break apart from the next NGEN contract — expected to be awarded to a new vendor or vendors sometime next year.
July 25, 2016 -
The Federal Headlines is a daily compilation of the stories you hear discussed on Federal News Radio each day. It is designed to give FederalNewsRadio.com readers more information about the stories heard on the radio. In today’s news, another federal official pleaded guilty to corruption charges surrounding the Glenn Defense Marine Asia case and more federal agencies can now move to the cloud.
June 24, 2016 -
Paige Hinkle-Bowles is taking over for retired Deputy Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Navy for Civilian Human Resources Patricia Adams.
June 22, 2016 -
President Barack Obama has named Rear Adm. Michael Gilday to be the next commander of the Navy’s 10th Fleet and Fleet Cyber Command, the Defense Department said on Tuesday.
June 08, 2016 -
The highly publicized alcohol ban, dutifully reported by every outlet in the world, strikes me as theatrical.
June 07, 2016 -
The Navy’s top cyber commander says her service needs to spend the next one thinking about a broad array of new activities that fall under the general heading of “procedural compliance.”
June 06, 2016 -
Navy Secretary says the maritime services haven't devoted much attention to nuclear as a shore-side "alternative" energy option thus far, but it's time to start.
June 02, 2016 -
The Air Force has increased Boeing's contract to replenish its inventory of guidance kits that convert unguided "dumb bombs" into smart munitions.
June 02, 2016 -
The question for Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is how tough and accountable the Navy will be about itself as the Fat Leonard scandal widens.
May 31, 2016 -
The Navy is considering multisourcing its next NGEN contract.
May 27, 2016 -
Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu discusses information warfare and Navy weapons systems with Vice Adm. Ted Branch and Rear Adm. Michael Manazir at the 2016 Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 24, 2016 -
David Rosinski, information systems security manager at the Naval Computer and Telecomunications Area Master Station in Rota, Spain, organized a cybersecurity awareness campaign for the local military community that raised some eyebrows. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about being a finalist in the Government Information Security Leadership Awards program put on by the ISC(2) group.
May 23, 2016