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Military will support inauguration with 13,500 personnel
Military personnel will have a role both in the inaugural parade itself and providing security and support around the hundreds of thousands of people who will descend on the National Mall on Jan. 21.
Tags: DoD , inauguration , National Guard , Joint Tas Force National Capital Region , Errol Schwartz , Michael Linnington , James Scanlon , management
Navy begins installing common IT architecture for entire fleet
The first Navy ship is undergoing an overhaul to implement the CANES system, one of up to 23 authorized under Pentagon's go-ahead for limited deployment.
Tags: DoD , technology , acquisition , industry , Navy , CANES , Jerry Borroughs ,
Pentagon greenlights Army's cloud-based intelligence system
A decade in the making, the Army gets the nod to start deploying a multi-billion dollar computing infrastructure to support intelligence work.
Tags: DoD , Army , DCGS-A , Palantir Technologies , information sharing , intelligence , Stephen Fogarty , Harold Greene , technology
Air Force plots course for cyber future
Lt. Gen. Michael Basla, the Air Force's chief information officer, discusses the service's cyber future in a conversation with Pentagon reporters.
Tags: On DoD , Michael Basla , cybersecurity , Air Force , DoD
Federal acquisition leaders distressed over workforce, budget cuts
Latest edition of a biennial survey, sponsored by a contracting industry group, finds acquisition leaders have the same challenges they had a decade ago. But they fear tighter budgets will reverse progress toward improving the government's acquisition workforce.
Tags: acquisition , contracting , industry , acquisition workforce , Professional Services Council , Army Contracting Command , Camille Nichols , Grant Thornton , Stan Soloway , Alan Chvotkin , Phil Kangas ,
Joint Chiefs to crack down on military IT stovepipes
A new process promises more advance word on what the Pentagon wants from its military services, but demands they comply with common architectures. DoD said it is learning from development mistakes of the past.
Tags: technology , DoD , Joint Information Environment , Martin Westphal , AFCEA , GCSS , standards , Joint Chiefs of Staff
DoD facilitates disability hiring with special programs
Stephen King, DoD's director of disability employment programs, talks with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu about hiring disabled Americans in the Defense Department. Then, Dinah Cohen, the director of the Pentagon's Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program, discusses assistance provided to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
Tags: On DoD , Stephen King , disability hiring , Dinah Cohen
Navy, Air Force CMOs decry 'blunt, formulaic' cuts to civilian workforce
Senate-passed annual authorization bill for DoD would require a 5 percent cut in non-uniformed employees. Chief management officers from two military services say mathematical cuts to a workforce that's "under siege" would be unwise.
Tags: DoD , workforce , civilian workforce , Navy , Air Force , Congress , Robert Work , Jamie Morin , Government Executive
Panetta, Shinseki order swifter progress toward joint health records
The heads of DoD and VA met on Thursday, and decided they wanted to a plan to speed up the delivery of an integrated health record system, currently scheduled for implementation in 2017.
Tags: technology , VA , DoD , Eric Shinseki , Leon Panetta , electronic health record , information sharing , health IT , veterans benefits , VBMS ,
Army to close D.C.-area contracting center in bid to reduce staff turnover
The Army's Contracting Command will inactivate its National Capital Region contracting center in July of 2013, one of six it currently operates around the country. The move is partially intended to let the command decrease its turnover rate for acquisition talent.
Tags: Army , DoD , Camille Nichols , Army Contracting Command ,
