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Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey hopes improved recruitment and retention practices as well as a new evaluation system for non-commissioned officers will strengthen the ranks in the face of budget cuts.
September 09, 2015 -
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Three key elements comprise the Navy's latest efforts to recognize innovation in the Navy and Marine Corps. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus listed modernizing cash awards programs, creating innovation awards and exploring non-traditional incentives to encourage innovation. Marine Corps Maj. Armando Martinez of the Office of Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the Navy's doing the awards program.
September 09, 2015 -
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The Army is instituting a new evaluation system for determining who gets promoted. It will start to use its new non-commmissioned officer evaluation report in 2016. The Army is fine-tuning the NCOER and training personnel on how to use it. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Dan Dailey joined In Depth with Francis Rose on Pentagon Solutions today. He explains why the Army decided the new evaluation system was necessary and why the new one will bring the Army better leadership.
September 09, 2015 -
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The DoD is calling for 25 percent reductions for appropriations funding across the department. Defense already had proposed 20 percent cuts, while Congress is considering as much as a 30 percent reduction in funding.
September 08, 2015 -
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With only 10 days left to pass sweeping budget deals and little agreement over proposals, Congress' likely options are pass a continuing resolution, or force a shutdown.
September 08, 2015 -
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Conference negotiators on the 2016 Defense Authorization Act will convene shortly as Congress comes back from its summer recess. The Defense Department is reviewing the results of base realignment and closure in Europe as it continues to make the case again for another round of BRAC stateside. Michael O'Hanlon, co-director and senior Fellow for Foreign Policy of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, wrote about BRAC in the National Interest magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose he's not sure prospects for a round of BRAC are much different now than they have been the past few years.
September 08, 2015 -
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Sexual misconduct, bribery and cheating are popping up on the Defense Department's ethics radar screen. A lack of accountability because of unclear guidance is one possible cause, according to the Government Accountability Office. Brenda Farrell, GAO's director of defense capabilities and management issues, fills in the details on In Depth with Francis Rose.
September 08, 2015 -
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Congress returns after its August recess needing to complete 12 spending bills, deal with a looming fiscal deadline, and focus on cybersecurity and DoD issues.
September 07, 2015 -
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The Government Accountability Office has revisited the weapon system acquisition programs at the Defense Department, only to find that many of its recommendations haven't been hold yet.
September 04, 2015 -
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Only eight weeks into the job, David Shulkin is rethinking health care goals within the Veterans Affairs Department
September 04, 2015 -
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GSA's office of integrated technology services and the Defense Information Systems Agency are in discussions to determine whether cloud is a "sufficiently defined" market to warrant a new multiple award contract of its own.
September 03, 2015 -
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More than 150 national defense projects would be at risk if the Defense Department enters fiscal year 2016 under a Continuing Resolution. The Air Force could take the brunt of that with depleted ranks and 50 programs on the potential chopping block. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells In Depth with Francis Rose there's not much you can do, if you sell to the Pentagon, except prepare for the worst.
September 03, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is trying to alleviate concerns from industry about new procedures for independent research and development and getting paid for it. DoD laid out new requirements in its Better Buying Power 3.0 plan in April to increase oversight of independent R&D. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin discuss why industry is concerned and what DoD is doing about it.
September 03, 2015 -
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Early in the Iraq war, substandard electrical wiring at U.S. bases caused the deaths of soldiers. The lawsuits are still dragging on. Construction contractor KBR has sued the Pentagon for documents it says it needs in lawsuits against the company. The DoD hasn't complied. Joe Petrillo, a partner at the law firm Petrillo and Powell, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to the sort out this case and its implications.
September 03, 2015
