Army

• A Conversation with Brigadier General John G. Ferrari

  What are the U.S. Army\'s key strategic and operational objectives? How is the Army restructuring its aviation portfolio? How is the Army using analytics to inform decision-making and resource allocation? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with Brigadier General John Ferrari, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the U.S. Army\'s deputy chief of staff.

  Defense

  April 14, 2015
• Jason Miller, Executive Editor, Federal News Radio

  The Defense Department is creating a new commodity technology shared service provider to serve the Pentagon and other locations in the Washington, D.C. area. DoD will issue a memo in the coming weeks to merge the Army\'s IT agency and other IT service providers into the Defense Information System Agency. In his biweekly feature, \"Inside the Reporter\'s Notebook,\" executive editor Jason Miller has exclusive details of this new shared services set up. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review them.

  Federal Drive

  April 13, 2015
• DoD to create single IT shared services office for DC region

  The Defense Department is creating a single shared-services office for all commodity information technology for the Washington metro area and placing it under the Defense Information Systems Agency.

  Defense

  April 13, 2015
• Army deploying warfighting version of in-flight Wi-Fi

  Within weeks, the Army says it will deploy systems that, for the first time, will give commanders access to the systems they need for mission command and planning, while they and their troops are airborne.

  Defense

  April 09, 2015
• Cyber, ERPs top Army PEO-EIS’ priority list

  In our latest online chat, Doug Wiltsie, head of the Army's Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems, discusses budget pressures, the move to agile development, acquisition innovation and cyber, among other topics.

  Budget

  March 24, 2015
• Jesse Holler, Quantitative Analyst, Bloomberg Government

  When the Obama administration released its 2016 budget request last month, it left some areas sort of blank. Case in point: The IT spending details for the Navy and Army, two of the biggest technology spenders in the government. Bloomberg Government analysts raided the IT dashboard this month to find some of the missing data. Bloomberg quantitative analyst Jesse Holler joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with a clearer picture of Army and Navy IT plans.

  Federal Drive

  March 23, 2015
• Retired generals, defense insiders named to panel on Army’s future

  At the end of last year, Congress ordered up a new commission to study the Army's future. We now know who will serve on that eight-member study panel.

  Defense

  March 23, 2015
• Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith, Deputy Chief of Staff, Army Reserve

  As one of the military's highest-ranking women and its first openly gay general, Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith, has a busy speaking calendar, especially around this time of year. It's women's history month. Smith is the deputy chief of staff of the Army Reserve, which prides itself on having women in 95 percent of its occupations. Federal News Radio Reporter Emily Kopp asked Smith whether she thought the Army Reserve was more welcoming to women than other parts of the military.

  All News

  March 19, 2015
• Doug Wiltsie, PEO, Enterprise Information Systems, Army

  Two priorities shape the way the United States Army will drive its business: Warfighting and enterprise information environment mission areas. Those priorities are more important in an Army where human power, and budget, is getting smaller. Doug Wiltsie is program executive officer for Enterprise Information Systems for the Army. On In Depth with Francis Rose, Doug laid out three priorities for 2015 and he says the first one is uninterrupted capability delivery.

  Federal Drive

  March 18, 2015
• Dr. Wendy Dean, Tissue Injury and Regenerative Medicine Program Management Office, U.S. Army

  You might remember Charla Nash. She's the woman who was horribly disfigured when attacked by a friend's pet chimpanzee back in 2009. The Pentagon has been closely watching her long recovery. More than watching, actually. The Army has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of Nash's medical bills. The hope is Nash's ordeal can help the military learn to care for disfigured soldiers returning from war. Dr. Wendy Dean, a medical advisor in the Army's Tissue Injury and Regenerative Medicine Program Management Office, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the effort and what the military hopes to learn.

  Federal Drive

  March 17, 2015
• Army commits $500 million to GSA’s OASIS contract

  Under a new agreement, GSA would reduce the Army's fee to use the professional services governmentwide acquisition contract to 0.1 percent from 0.75 percent. This is the second major MOU signed by GSA and a military service.

  Defense

  March 17, 2015
• Army plans large reductions in service contract support

  Cuts to service contracts are part of an Army-wide push to use soldiers and civilians for jobs that had been outsourced by necessity during wartime, officials said Wednesday.

  Congress

  March 12, 2015
• Army to deal with budget cuts by sharing services with local communities

  The military already has shown it can improve services on bases through public-private partnerships. As budgets shrink, the next task is to partner with local governments.

  Budget

  March 11, 2015
• Cloud migration & data center consolidation

  Dave Gwyn and Chris Howard, vice presidents of Federal sales at Nutanix, join host John Gilroy to discuss how their company can help your agency move to cloud and consolidate its data. March 10, 2015

  Federal Tech Talk

  March 10, 2015