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Heather Wilson, the newly-confirmed Secretary of the Air Force, wants to know whether her service’s acquisition professionals are actually using legislative provisions meant to help the Pentagon speed up and simplify the acquisition process
The former Army secretary says there's too much bickering in Congress to actually grow the military, but readiness holes need to be plugged first anyways.
The Navy’s 2018 budget request includes a billion more dollars and a thousand new employees to help the service dig out of an ongoing ship maintenance backlog. Trouble is, the Navy’s current training regimen for new depot maintenance workers takes about five years before they’re ready to work, and officials say they need to find ways to speed that process up.
James MacStravic, who's performing the duties of undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics plans to spend the next year driving DoD toward better performance in IT acquisition, including by reducing the number of departmentwide policies on the topic.
Navy's personnel IT budget rises by 77 percent in 2018 and is expected to more than double by 2020 to support a "transformation" of the personnel system dubbed Sailor 2025.
In one of her first public appearances, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson gives pilots more flexibility in contract lengths.
Presidents have used the overseas contingency operations fund to bolster the Defense Department budget outside of the Budget Control Act rules. But Congress should do better.
Acting Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology James MacStravic gave an inside look at what DoD is like under the new administration.
DoD is trying to make its networks more conducive to Third Offset Strategy technologies with new guidance.
The Navy is testing a new evaluation system that it says will be more objective, deliver greater fidelity in measuring sailors' performance. The end goal is to use the scores to help inform servicemembers' compensation packages.
Both Republican and Democratic presidents have used overseas contingency operations (OCO) funds to bolster the Defense Department's budget, lately outside of the Budget Control Act rules. This year is no different. Lacie Heeley, a fellow at the Stimson Center's budgeting for foreign affairs and defense program, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin Congress should do better.
The Air Force plans to hire 1,400 cyber and 2,000 acquisition personnel over the next year. To do that, it's taking a fresh approach to how it recruits.
The Army chief of staff wants a new assessment of the $6 billion WIN-T program, hopefully in time to influence the 2018 Defense authorization bill. He worries the system is too vulnerable in real-world battle conditions and is based on outdated technology.
The Air Force let go of more than 1,100 airmen in 2015 and 2016 as part of its 2014 force reduction.
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