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DISA employees staying on, despite BRAC
Seventy percent of the Defense Information System Agency's workers are making the move to Ft. Meade, Md. DISA, however, is keeping the pipeline of potential new hires stocked and taking steps to improve the hiring process. Vendors also have not seen a large exit of employees, but could later this fall.
Tags: pay and benefits , industry , Jack Penkoske , David Bullock , DISA , Kathleen Smith , Clearjobs.net , BRAC Impact , telework , hiring , Jason Miller
Hagel orders review of US defense strategy
Tags: House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon , budget , F-35
McDonnell requests delay in Mark Center BRAC move
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has formally asked the Department of Defense to delay the full implementation of relocating 6,400 military personal to the new Mark Center in Alexandria.
Tags: BRAC Impact , Hank Silverberg , Bob McDonnell , Mark Center , In Depth
Senators will see Bin Laden photos
The Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Armed Services committees have been granted permission to see the photographs of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed. The CIA has asked them to make an appointment to see them. President Barack Obama said last week making the photos available for public viewing because it could incite violence and be used by al Qaeda as a propaganda tool. The committee members on the other hand have top secret clearances and are bound by them and can not reveal any details about anything that is top secret.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Defense
Pakistan Station in Limbo
The CIA declined to comment on a report that the identity of the Station Chief in Islamabad had been exposed. By all accounts the Agency seems to be suggesting it will not bring home the station chief. It was just last December that the identity of the previous station chief in Pakistan was leaked and had to be recalled immediately, for his own safety. Experts say sour relations between the U.S. and Pakistan is the reason why this kind of thing is happening. They say the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistani territory without their knowledge by U.S. forces is likely the reason behind the lack of cooperation.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Defense
President Obama re-confirms drawdown
President Barack Obama met with troops at Fort Campbell in Kentucky to congratulate them on the success of special forces units based there that killed Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. While there, he reiterated his intention to start pulling back U.S. forces from Afghanistan this summer, and also indicated Bin Laden's demise shows the U.S. strategy is working. The President spoke to a general military audience and then met privately with the Navy Seals that carried out the Bin Laden mission.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Defense
President pays the Seals a visit
Fort Campbell is going to be the scene of a visit today by President Obama. He's expected to meet with some of those involved in the military assault that killed Osama bin Laden. Fort Campbell is home to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which participated in the raid against bin Laden. A team of Navy SEALs raided a compound in Pakistan, killing the terrorist mastermind. Bin Laden was later buried at sea. Authorities are combing through effects he left behind.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Defense
Navy launches video game to solve real-world problems
The game is called the Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI).
Tags: Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the , Navy , video games , technology , Larry Schuette , In Depth
Growth of bases means more creature comforts for feds
For military bases in the national capital region, forget the "closure" part of Base Realignment and Closure. The 2005 BRAC round means huge growth at bases around Washington, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and creature comforts for the growing workforce.
Tags: BRAC , BRAC Impact , Ft. Meade , Ft. Belvoir , DISA , David Bullock , Dan Thomas , Don Carr , Travis Edwards , Mark Center , Jared Serbu
Ft. Meade confronts transportation challenge
Bert Rice, director of transformation at Ft. Meade, who says the construction is nearly complete. Now, as he tells Federal News Radio, it's time to focus on the "transportation challenge."
Tags: BRAC , BRAC Impact , Ft. Meade , DISA , Bert Rice
