Pentagon
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Thus far, President Donald Trump’s promise to reduce the size of the federal workforce only involves attrition, not layoffs. But if things escalate to actual reductions in force, Pentagon employees with poor performance ratings will be the first to go.
January 26, 2017 -
Congress bought itself more time to work out a fiscal 2017 budget by passing a continuing resolution, but an intractable fight remains on the defense spending front.
September 29, 2016 -
A look back at the five- and 10- and 15-year ceremonies remembering the 184 people who died at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
September 12, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Defense Department is asking Congress for money to set up a screening facility at the Pentagon Metro stop, but some lawmakers aren't convinced.
August 26, 2016 -
The rapid acquisition office the Pentagon set up a decade ago to fight against improvised explosives spent at least $112 million to deliver the military services several programs that were never proven to work, the Defense Department’s inspector general said Tuesday.
August 10, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the House passes a bill to extend Veterans Affairs' expedited removal process for senior executives to all SES members and the VA Commission on Care releases its long list of recommendations for the agency....
July 07, 2016 -
The final details of the 2017 defense authorization bill remain a work in progress for the House and Senate, but one bargaining chip of the deal could undo some steep travel cuts for DoD employees.
May 13, 2016 What happens when you bring together some of the nation’s leading hackers, the Pentagon’s chief of training and an Air Force Academy professor who teaches cyber skills to cadets? They all agree on one thing: The government’s approach to cyber security is coming up short.
January 15, 2016-
Here’s another in our series on longtime feds who are retiring soon. Everybody’s got a different story. Some of them are fascinating, some funny, some kind of sad. Or a combination of all three - which, maybe, is life …
December 31, 2015 -
The defense authorization bill agreed upon by House and Senate negotiators would affect military pocketbooks in ways both big and small. It includes a 1.3 percent pay increase for uniformed service members but chips away at the military's pension system. In exchange for shrinking pensions, it encourages current troops — and mandates that future ones — invest in the Thrift Savings Plan.
September 30, 2015 -
The Pentagon has already signaled its intent to move its massive enterprise email service to a privately-operated, commercially-based cloud environment. This week, DoD officially kicked off the planning process for a procurement that will affect more than one and a half million users. Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
September 18, 2015 A Pentagon investigation finds DoD has been dangerously shipping live samples of anthrax to research facilities for the past 12 years. The review found the samples went to at least 86 separate labs in several countries. While there’s no evidence anyone was actually sickened by the bacteria, investigators found systemic flaws in the government’s management of the world’s deadliest biological agents. Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu has the details. Read Jared's related story.
July 24, 2015-
The Pentagon’s newest cyber organization is poised to take a key step in its maturation over the next several weeks as it branches out from Fort Meade and into three new branch offices designed to help defend DoD systems in various geographic areas.
July 06, 2015 -
The Defense Department knows it wants to reduce the size of its headquarters, but it doesn't know exactly how. John Pendleton, director of defense capabilities and management issues at the Government Accountability Office, tells In Depth with Francis Rose how the Pentagon should plan to trim down its management offices.
January 27, 2015 -
According to the Associated Press, President Barack Obama has chosen Ashton Carter as his nominee to be next Defense secretary, putting him in line to take over for Chuck Hagel who resigned last week. Carter has served in the past as both the Deputy Secretary of Defense and as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
December 02, 2014