Acting Dod News Today

of big news, joe, on capitol hill. >> what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some -- i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing weve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four chan...

To seize voting machines. gep, talk about criminal intent. it just seems to be laying out there. >> yeah, i mean, the whole thing had this kind of absurdist feeling to it. and it would have been sort of more darkly humorous if it wasnt exceptionally serious, right? like, imagine youre the attache in rome and you get a phone call from the acting dod secretary saying, hey, can you run down this rumor of italian satellites changing votes from biden to trump. he must have been completely confused at...

Elsewhere in the hearing John Sherman called attention to a growing concern at the Pentagon over the radio spectrum, saying "spectrum sharing" should be a DoD watchword.

By   Brad D. Williams on July 06, 2021 at 5:39 PM WASHINGTON: A top critic of the Pentagon’s long-embattled 2019 single-source enterprise cloud computing contract believes the Defense Department is “moving in the right direction” with today’s announcement that it’s issuing a new multi-cloud, multi-vendor request for proposal (RFP) in October. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) RFP is being canceled, Acting DoD CIO John Sherman said, and the contract is being termin...

When they put them on the ground, the u.s. was down to being about the only holdout in the world still trying to fly these planes. so the president said, he was a big fan of boeing, he spoke with boeing executives, he spoke with some of his own people in the administration and conclude ed this was the measure they needed to take. he also, though, i pointed out hes a big fan of boeing, he also praised boeing during the middle of all of this, talking about, you know, its a strong company, theyll b...