Defense
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Welcome to the #FedFeed, a daily collection of federal ephemera collected from social media and presented for your enjoyment.
September 08, 2016 -
A month after being rebuked by the Government Accountability Office for the way it planned to pick vendors in a ten year, $17.5 billion IT services contract, the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a revised request for proposals Wednesday, giving vendors a little more than three weeks to submit new bid packages.
September 08, 2016 -
Intelligence agencies are hiring contractors where government workers were once the norm. This employee deficit is a sign of a larger trend that government and the Defense Department are unable to attract top talent to their agencies over private industry.
September 08, 2016 -
The Defense Department has a byzantine process that’s meant to ensure it only acquires what it really needs. But there’s no comparable set of guardrails to make sure it doesn’t get rid of things it does need. That’s one conclusion of auditors at the Government Accountability Office. They fault the Air Force for not doing enough homework before it proposed to get rid of the A-10 fighter. John Pendleton, director of Defense capability and management issues at GAO, told Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu the Air Force didn’t adequately account for all the missions the A-10 performs, before it decided to ground it.
September 08, 2016 -
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general blames chronic underfunding for extensive delays in its investigations into whistleblower reprisal claims, which averaged about 300 days in 2015.
September 08, 2016 -
DoD would focus on sustainment costs if is has a chance to release another version of Better Buying Power.
September 07, 2016 -
House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Joe Heck wants a higher pay raise for military employees.
September 06, 2016 -
Trade groups representing banks and credit unions say they haven’t had enough time to study the DoD’s rules to protect servicemembers from predatory loans.
September 06, 2016 -
The Defense Department appointed 18 members to yet another advisory committee to study the acquisition system. But this one has a much more specific task than the blue ribbon panels that have come in the decades before it.
September 06, 2016 -
GAO explicitly rejected the claim that the agency shouldn't have used LPTA, saying the decision was justified because ENCORE is “a mature program with a substantial commercial application.”
September 06, 2016 -
Scott Airforce Base in Illinois is home to the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency, 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity.
September 05, 2016 -
The Army is sticking to its word on a late 2016 request for proposals on unified capabilities.
September 02, 2016 -
Even a shrinking Army needs to recruit tens of thousands of new soldiers every year. To that end, Army brass are worried they've got a branding problem. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the Army’s doing to fix what it views as widespread misperceptions that might hurt recruiting.
September 02, 2016 -
The Defense Department will delay the rollout of its forthcoming $4.6 billion electronic health record because of newly-discovered technical problems, officials said Thursday.
September 01, 2016 -
Scott Air Force Base in Illinois is home to a brand new building with 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity. It's the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency. Col. Paul Craft, the commander, described the new center in an interview with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
September 01, 2016