ASMC The Business of Defense

  • The number of defense contracting fraud and corruption cases sent by government investigators to prosecutors dropped precipitously under the Bush administration. the Center for Public Integrity reports the decrease took place even as contracting by…

    April 02, 2009
  • Amanda Eamich, Director of Strategic Communication and New Media in the Food Safety and Inspection Service at the Agriculture Department talks about how her agency is using Web 2.0 tools to share information internally, to push information out to citizens, and to get feedback from the public.

    March 30, 2009
  • Judy Tillman Commissioner, Financial Management Service U.S. Department of the Treasury March 30th & April 1st

    March 26, 2009
  • The North Koreans are moving ahead with plans to load a Taepodong rocket on it’s east coast launch pad in aticicpation of launching a satellite early next month. U.S. intelligence officials say Japanese news reports…

    March 25, 2009
  • More troops headed to Afghanistan. So to are more contractors, like those that worked at the company formerly known as Blackwater. That company and others involved in excessive force allegations brought about more scrutiny of…

    March 23, 2009
  • The Pentagon Budget will be front and center in about a month. Among the programs and issues on the bubble are the Army’s Future Combat systems. The GAO also recommended that Congress not approve full…

    March 23, 2009
  • Have DHS’s priorities changed when it comes to the southern border? DHS secretary Janet Napolitano seemed to suggest they have. Meeting with reporters Napolitano said DHS is still focused on fighting illegal immigration and drug…

    March 20, 2009
  • Summer in Afghanistan is called “120 days of Wind” by some. But this one may be called “The Long Hot Summer”. Pentagon sources say the war in the southern and eastern parts of the country…

    March 16, 2009
  • A new report indicates the U.S. Army’s main modernization program, being run by Boeing Co, has failed to meet key benchmarks. The program may cost almost 20 billion dollars more than orginally planned and may…

    March 13, 2009
  • After intense criticism about his political views, Ambassador Charles Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair says he…

    March 11, 2009
  • Kamal Bherwani Chief Information Officer & Executive Director, HHS-Connect March 9th and 11th, 2009

    March 09, 2009
  • The number of U.S. troops who have suffered wartime brain injuries may be as high as 360,000 and could cast more attention on such injuries among civilians. The Associated Press’s Pauline Jenelik reports The estimate…

    March 05, 2009
  • Carol Waller Pope FLRA Acting Chairwoman Mark Roth AFGE General Counsel Jim Aldridge President of AFGE\'s Law Enforcement Council Don Drewett Vice president of AFGE Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Local 3860

    March 05, 2009
  • Michael Dominguez –Acting Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness was charged with cleaning up the mess after the military health scandal at Walter Reed hospital broke two years ago is about to leave office. What was…

    March 04, 2009