A congressional advisory panel says lawmakers have provided numerous ways for DoD to speed up its hiring of acquisition professionals. In fact, they may be too numerous.
The Navy awards a $100 million contract to operate the government's latest consortium of companies aiming to get in on the military's increasing reliance on other transaction agreements.
Things are moving fast as summer rolls on and mid-term elections near.
Traditionally, the government considers that a good thing for the economy and because it ensures the gear allies use is interoperable with what U.S. armed forces have.
If the Defense Department wants faster and better ways to do acquisition, it's got to do more than change a few rules.
In today's Federal Newscast, Raphael Sanchez, former chief counsel for Immigration and Custom Enforcement's Office of Principal Legal Advisor used the identities of undocumented immigrants to open fraudulent lines of credit.
Frank Konieczny, the Air Force CIO, said the service is figuring out how to authenticate connected devices.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry proposed eliminating a half-dozen DoD agencies earlier this year, but the idea died almost as quickly as it was conceived.