by defensecomm | Jan 6, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360
Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s chief of staff, Eric Chewning, is leaving DOD at the end of the month. Chewning joined the Pentagon in 2017 and has been chief of staff since January 2019. The new chief of staff will be Jen Stewart, Politico reported. Stewart is the top...
by defensecomm | Jan 6, 2020 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, DC360
The Air Force will spend $2 million to stop PFAS-contaminated water from flowing into waterways near the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, Penn., the Philadelphia Inquirer reported…. Redevelopment of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station in...
by defensecomm | Jan 5, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families
About 3,500 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., are headed to the Middle East after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. “[T]he mood around the sprawling installation… has turned serious,” the Fayetteville Observer...
by defensecomm | Jan 5, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360
Congress may consider creating a cyber force as the next new uniformed service, CQ reported. The defense policy bill that became law last month directs DOD to assess “the potential costs, benefits, and value, if any, of establishing a cyber force as a separate...
by defensecomm | Jan 5, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360
As House Democrats work on the next defense authorization bill, they will “continue [to] make sure we can maintain and attract the best personnel” but will balance that with a focus on acquisition reform, Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told...
