Tag Archives: DoD

Dave Mihelcic, chief technology officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency, has said that some definitions of cloud that the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed may not be applicable to the Defense Department, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. “So I think the answer that you’re not going to …

Michael Vickers, then-defense undersecretary for intelligence at the Defense Department, said in an April 2015 report that DoD has initiated efforts to detect potential insider threats through pilots and concept demonstrations, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Steven Aftergood wrote Jan. 7 on the FAS blog that Vickers’ report to …

Todd Weiler, founder and CEO of consulting firm One Hemisphere Ventures, will be nominated by President Obama to the role of assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs at the Defense Department, the White House announced Monday. Weiler launched One Hemisphere Ventures in 2008 and worked as vice president at Computer …

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has said the Defense Department should tolerate risks through experimentation when it comes to the acquisition of new technology platforms, FCW reported Thursday. “We’ve got to allow people to make mistakes,” Thornberry said at a committee hearing Thursday. “One way to help …

Gen. John Kelly, outgoing chief of the U.S. Southern Command, has said the command collaborates with its military allies to counter terrorism, illegal drug trade and transnational organized crime, DoD News reported Friday. Lisa Ferdinando writes the Defense Department established Southcom to carry out DoD’s security cooperation initiatives in southern and …

The U.S. Air Force has announced it will implement reduction-in-force authority through April 4 as part of efforts to rebalance its civilian workforce and meet defense funding goals for fiscal 2016. The move comes after the Air Force identified more than 1,000 “overage” civilian positions across 48 facilities during a command …

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the Defense Department must identify an organizational framework that will allow the U.S. military to keep pace with new and emerging threats, DoD News reported Monday. “We need to make sure in the context of transregional, multidomain, multifunctional conflicts that we have …

The Defense Department is seeking to adopt joint enterprise licensing agreements in a move to reduce program costs, Federal Times reported Wednesday. John Edwards and Eve Keiser write JELAs require DoD to combine all project requirements into a single agreement that addresses all of the defense organizations’ needs. Organizations with similar …

U.S. Navy Capt. David Manero, special assistant to the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been appointed defense attache to Russia. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, announced Manero’s new assignment in a Defense Department news release published Thursday. The Navy Attache Affairs office screens and selects the …

Command Sgt. Maj. Luther Thomas of the Army Reserve has been appointed as senior enlisted adviser to the assistant defense secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, Army Times reported Tuesday. Michelle Tan writes Thomas will be instrumental in forging personnel policies that relate to service members and civilians across the …