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The Army is expanding its use wireless WiFi networks, both indoors and outdoors. By getting rid of heavy cabling that takes hours to install, the Army is hoping to make command posts and tactical units more mobile and agile. Lt. Col. Mark Henderson, product manager for WIN-T Increment One, shares details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Government Accountability Office took a fresh look at the Defense Department's Real Property Assets Database and discovered missing and inaccurate information. Brian Lepore, GAO's director of defense capabilities and management issues, talked about the findings on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
As of last week, all of the Defense Department components that fall under the direct control of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) are barred from hiring any new civilian employees.
Within the next month, the Navy expects to issue a request for proposals to support a new concept it’s calling the “Cloud Store.”
Peter Levine, DoD’s deputy chief management officer, told a House subcommittee that his office's problem with deploying business IT systems boils down to too many cooks in the kitchen.
Epidemic Intelligence Service officers serve as the disease detectives when an outbreak happens.
The Defense Department inspector general took a look at 48 performance assessment reports prepared by the Air Force and found some weaknesses. Michael Roark, assistant Defense IG for contractor management, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why Performance Assessment Reports are important and how they're being used.
Dakota Wood, senior research fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the Defense Department defines modernization and how that differs from what it calls "new capabilities".
The Army doesn't think it will be able to adopt Windows 10 by the DoD's deadline.
This week's Pentagon Solutions looks at sleep-deprivation among Army soldiers and defective contract at six Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.
The Defense Department’s top tech official said his top worry is the retention and recruitment of talented employees as pay and benefits make it more enticing to work for private companies.
DoD Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy Claire Grady said two updates on contract types and source selection are nearing release. The hope is to more clearly communicate with industry the wants and needs in government contracts.
The Army is planning to co-mingle Army, National Guard and reservists to promote compatibility in peacetime and wartime.
Now that Congress has funded the Coast Guard's largest acquisition budget ever, Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the barometer is rising and the storms have abated.