Posts from GovConDaily for 03/17/2016

Deborah Lee James: Air Force Needs More Training, ‘Strategic Deterrence’ Fund for Nuclear Triad

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the service branch needs more time to train and achieve the level of readiness it needs to counter global threats the U.S. currently faces, Air Force Times reported Thursday…

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley: Army Reserve Needs Sufficient Resources to Address Unexpected Contingencies

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, chief of the U.S. Army Reserve, has said his organization is in need of sufficient training resources in order to maintain readiness as well as respond to unanticipated contingencies, DoD News reported Wednesday…

House Clears Federal Data Center Efficiency Bill; Rep. Anna Eshoo Comments

The House of Representatives has approved by voice vote Rep. Anna Eshoo’s proposed legislation that seeks to boost federal data center efficiency. Eshoo, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s communications and technology panel, said in a statement released Monday the bill would “[save] the federal government energy and taxpayer dollars by requiring the use of energy efficient and energy saving technologies, specifically in federal data centers…

CERDEC Works on Noise-Encrypted Waveform Designed for Radar Emission Masking

The U.S. Army continues its work to develop a noise-encrypted radar waveform designed to hide radar emissions in efforts to address issues in radar system performance in a radio frequency environments…

Defense Secretary Nominates Marshall Webb for Air Force Special Operations Command Commander

Lt. Gen Mashall Webb, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Special Operations Headquarters, has been nominated to lead the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command in Hurlburt Field, Florida…

GAO Urges DoD to Check Accuracy of Real Property Mgmt Data

The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to verify the accuracy of its real property inventory system that is used to make reports on leased assets. GAO said Tuesday it found errors in nearly 15 percent of the Real Property Assets Database‘s lease records for fiscal year 2011 and 10 percent of the records for fiscal year 2013, mostly referring to the lease records for the U…

Raytheon Develops New Software for Weapons Integration on Legacy Aircraft

Raytheon has unveiled a software system that works to convert legacy weapons interfaces to universal armament interface message sets and link MIL-STD-1760 and the Miniature Munition Store Interface. Envoy, previously called the Interface Bridge, was developed in an effort to create a time- and cost-efficient integration system for new weapons onto legacy aircraft, Raytheon said Wednesday…