Vice Adm. Robert Burke, former director of the U.S. Navy‘s military personnel plans and policy division, has assumed his new role as chief of naval personnel. Burke will handle planning and programming strategies of
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Steven Calvery will retire from his role as director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency after 10 years of service focused on post-9/11 protection and security missions, DoD News reported Friday. Terri Moon
More The Congressional Budget Office has said a proposed Senate bill that would authorize the State Department to use cost-technical tradeoff contracts to designate guards at overseas posts would cost approximately $47 million to implement from
More The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have started to evaluate a TecLeaf-built solar power system designed to power equipment at military base camps, the Army said Wednesday. Dan Lafontaine writes the
More Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh estimates the military service will need at least 40,000 more airmen in order to maximize its manpower capacity, Air Force Times reported Saturday. Oriana Pawlyk
More Norbert Vint, acting Office of Personnel Management inspector general, has issued a report that says OPM has not followed “proper” capital planning procedures for a project to modernize the agency’s information technology systems. Vint informed
More The Government Accountability Office has called on agencies to address legacy information technology systems that need to be modernized or replaced. Approximately 5,233 of 7,000 government IT investments are spent on operations and
More A U.S. Navy official has said the service branch faces a budget shortfall of $848 million in its maintenance and operations funds that could potentially delay the deployment of some ships, Defense
More Several lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups have called on Congress to introduce a bill that would allow the Central States Pension Fund to receive financial assistance from the federal government, the Washington Post
More The White House’s National Science and Technology Council has published a document that details seven strategies on how federal agencies can create and expand their individual research and development plans for big data
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