Pentagon
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CongressFord Carrier’s First Deployment Delayed to 2021…For Now
Navy officials confirmed on Thursday that the target date for the inaugural deployment of the first Ford-class carrier has been pushed off two years from 2019 to 2021 as a […]
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BudgetProposed NDAA Aquisition Reforms Would Reroute Milestone Decision Authority to Services
The House and Senate on Tuesday struck a deal on the defense authorization bill, agreeing on a conference report that contains an array of acquisition reform provisions meant to increase […]
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CongressCyber Workforce Put Off By Worries Of Government Shutdown, Rogers Says
U.S. Cyber Command overall is ahead of expectations in terms of bringing on personnel for its Cyber Mission Forces but even concerns about the potential of a government shutdown is […]
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Air ForceDoD Declines Milestone A Decision For Air Force JSTARS
The Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) on Sept. 18 did not approve a Milestone A decision for the Air Force’s Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) recapitalization program, according to […]
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CyberGAO Says DoD Should Do More to Help Small Businesses On Cybersecurity
The Defense Department can and should do more to help defense small businesses protect their networks from cyber threats, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released […]
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Homeland SecurityEmployee Satisfaction At DHS Remains Low
Only 47 percent of employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consider their department a good place to work, down a percent from 2014, according to an annual government-wide […]
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CyberOPM Says More Fingerprints Stolen Than Initially Thought
Several million more individuals had their fingerprints stolen in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hacks than the initially thought 1.1 million (Defense Daily, July 9), the agency said […]
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PentagonDoD Biometrics Official Says Focus Shifting To Future Threats, Technology Needs
TAMPA, Fla.—The Defense Department official that oversees biometric efforts across the DoD enterprise, including the science and technology portfolio, said Thursday at a conference here that his focus has shifted […]
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Air ForceAir Force/Navy Ballistic Missile Commonality Study Nearing Completion
The overseers of the Navy’s Trident 2 D-5 program and the Air Force’s soon-to-start acquisition of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent will by Oct. 17 brief key Defense Department brass on […]
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PentagonDoD Official Calls on Industry to Share Cost Data
A Pentagon official wants the defense industry to provide greater cost data on weapons program development and production to the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of a “growing partnership” […]