Defense
Defense Department Enlists Tech Exec Eric Schmidt for 'Innovation'
Alphabet's executive chairman will lead new advisory board that aims to help the department be more like Silicon Valley.
Nextgov
Pentagon Now Taking Bids on $17.5B Encore III Contract for Global IT Services
The contract is essential to the Defense Department’s Joint Information Environment.
Management
Pentagon Travel Expense Cuts Are Hurting Navy Ship Maintenance
DoD policy reducing long-term travel per diem rates is generating widespread backlash.
Nextgov
IT Problems Still Bedevil DOD-VA Health Care Center
Because of different network security standards, the two departments share resources over three networks -- not one.
Defense
We're On the Same Side, Carter Tells Silicon Valley
As the FBI-vs.-Apple battle heats up, the defense secretary makes his own pitch to the tech industry.
Pay & Benefits
Senators to Pentagon: Don't Mess With Commissary Employees' Compensation
A proposal would convert workers to a different personnel structure, potentially reducing their pay and benefits.
Management
Contractors Group Picks Ex-Pentagon Logistics Exec as Chief
David Berteau to replace Stan Soloway at Professional Services Council.
Defense
Apple Wins Round One in its Encryption Fight With the FBI
A federal judge in New York rules in the company’s favor on the same legal principle that the FBI is using in California.
Defense
A Former CIA Analyst Explains How Tech Companies Can Help Fight Terrorism
The gulf between Silicon Valley and Washington appears to be widening.
Defense
Why Fertility Treatments Aren’t Covered for Veterans
The government will help active-duty soldiers with the cost of IVF, but vets don’t have the same benefit—even when combat injuries make it impossible to have kids otherwise.
Tech
FBI Head: Apple is Taking Us To a ‘Different World’
Officials say Apple is creating a situation where FBI can’t do its job. Apple says the FBI is seeking "dangerous power." Who’s right?
Defense
Whistleblower Persuades Navy to Correct Risky Jet Fuel Waste
Office of Special Counsel brought to light discarding of 12,000 gallons a year.
Nextgov
Why is the Air Force’s Cyber R&D Budget Skyrocketing?
The branch wants to nearly quadruple the current $7.7 million purse for defending networked aircraft, launch systems, satellites and data.
Defense
Top Admiral Asks U.S. Allies to Help Buzz China’s Fake Islands
The four-star admiral of U.S. Pacific Command told Congress he wants other countries to join the U.S. in flying, sailing near China’s new islands (and that new radar).
Defense
Air Force Paper: Women Who Wear the Hijab Contribute to 'Passive Terrorism'
Millions of Muslim women might have something to say about that.
Defense
Why Are There So Many Copies of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?
There are multiple copies and even traveling versions of the wall. This increases access, but does it dilute the meaning of the monument?
Defense
What's New in Obama's Plan to Close Guantanamo
The White House’s plan gives Congress 13 different sites to choose from—and just added a lot of fuel to an already heated topic in a national security election year.
Defense
Apple and the FBI Break the Fourth Wall
In their ongoing clash, the two notoriously secret organizations are fighting for Americans' hearts and minds.
Management
Military Contractors Return in Numbers to Iraq
Behind the president’s directive to ‘accelerate’ the counter-ISIS campaign came a surge in the number of contractors assisting in the campaign against ISIS.
Defense