Defense Systems
National Guard steps up election support
This year National Guard units will be on the keyboards and, in some areas, at the polls.
Defense Systems
DOD could get permanent telework capability in 2021
The Defense Department wants to convert its key telework tool, the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment, to a permanent capability by next summer.
Defense Systems
Digital contact tracing key to force readiness, DOD says
The Defense Health Agency envisions personnel wearing an unobtrusive device that supports proximity logging and recording in all military environments, including those disconnected from wide-area networks, to guard against coronavirus spread.
Defense Systems
GDIT hangs on to DEOS cloud contract
The Pentagon re-awards DEOS cloud contract to GDIT, but lowers the ceiling value from the original award, from $7.6 billion to $4.4 billion.
Defense Systems
DARPA scouting for ‘revolutionary’ ideas
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for unconventional approaches that challenge conventional wisdom and have the potential to radically change established practices.
Defense Systems
The Army's secret to cutting manual work for contracting professionals
Thanks to robotic process automation, the time it takes Army contracting professionals to determine whether prospective vendors should receive a contract has been cut from an hour to just five minutes.
Defense Systems
GSA's next-gen IT contract will have CMMC requirements
Polaris, the General Services Administration's developing Alliant 2 small business contract replacement, will have CMMC clauses.
Ideas
Great Power Competition Comes Home to America
Our leaders’ efforts to heal divisions among our fellow citizens are key to national defense.
Defense Systems
Bringing DOD’s public safety communications into the 21st century
The Pentagon wants its public safety communications capabilities to be like the IP-based technologies currently used by state and local government responders.
Defense Systems
DOD IG kicks off compliance review for diversity executive order
The new review comes with the termination of an audit meant to determine whether military personnel were getting with the training needed to meet DOD’s diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity goals.
Defense Systems
DOD 'data commandments' are in the works
David Spirk, the Defense Department’s chief data officer, touted the need for data commandments and continuous education to make JADC2 a reality.
Science & Tech
US Elections Are Safer from Foreign Interference, But Gaps Remain
Four years after a big wake-up call, federal, state, and local governments are working harder and more closely to ward off threats.
Ideas
We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
America’s national security depends on our ability to turn today’s hyperpartisan division into tomorrow’s cooperation.
Threats
Right and Left-Wing Extremists Are Anticipating Election-Related Violence—From the Other Side, Report Finds
Experts say that high tensions could lead to a combustible situation this week.
Ideas
Time to Rethink Arms Sales to Taiwan
Once, they might have tilted the military balance. Now they just destabilize the region.
Ideas
The Election Without a Debate over War
We go to the polls without the candidates having exchanged meaningful thoughts about the American way of war — and what we might do differently.
Exclusive
Policy
Helicopters Over DC Protesters Broke Regulations While Commander was Driving Home, DC Guard Concludes
The D.C. National Guard and Pentagon IG are fighting over who to blame for the dangerous incident that symbolized Trump’s militarized response.
Ideas