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New Navy approach to supply chain elevates data-driven decisions to C-suite

In the first of multiple waves yet to be implemented under a new reform plan, the Navy has saved or avoided more than $400 million in costs by taking a…

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Why DoD’s fighting force is ‘ever shrinking’ despite robust budgets

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FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Associated Press has learned that leaders of the military services have expressed reservations to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about removing sexual assault cases from the chain of command. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Adieu to CVR, the platform that taught DoD how to act as an IT enterprise

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Pentagon has huge blind spots in its spending on OTAs

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Army’s top R&D command charts a course for post-pandemic telework

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Even as negative audit findings rise, glimmers of progress on DoD’s 2020 financial statement

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FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Pentagon on Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD’s new Adaptive Acquisition Framework takes new approach to tailoring procurement strategies

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New financing could start to improve Army housing as soon as this summer

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With new cloud policy, Navy moves back to a centralized approach

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200610-N-ML137-1057 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 10, 2020) In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the

When fixing Navy readiness problems, money helps. But so does data.

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DoD efforts to improve software acquisition hampered by gaps in understanding workforce

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SOUTH PACIFIC (July 9, 2017) Operations Specialist 1st Class Charles Hammond, from Kansas City, Missouri, monitors tracks aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) during an air defense exercise comprised of Sterett, amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20), amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Ballarat (FFH 155), Royal Australian Navy guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), and Royal Australian Navy frigate helicopter HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156) as part of Talisman Saber 17. Sterett, part of a combined U.S.-Australia-New Zealand expeditionary strike group (ESG), is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase proficiencies defending the ESG against blue-water threats so amphibious forces can launch Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Byron C. Linder/Released)170709-N-ZW825-895

Navy seeing ‘explosion’ in use of OTA for IT, cyber development work

The Navy was a relative latecomer to other transaction agreements, but the service’s usage of OTAs in the IT space has surged, and the service is moving…

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DoD’s Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be

DoD’s new Space Development Agency solicited and awarded a major, multimillion dollar systems integration contract via the traditional FAR-based procurement…

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Army cutting costs by sharing services with local communities

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The Army is finding new ways to partner with the communities around its bases. Thanks to a 2015 law that lets the military services sign service agreements with local governments without the pain of traditional federal contracts, it’s reached dozens of Intergovernmental Support Agreements for everything from snow removal to animal control.

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New Navy approach to supply chain elevates data-driven decisions to C-suite

Why DoD’s fighting force is ‘ever shrinking’ despite robust budgets

Adieu to CVR, the platform that taught DoD how to act as an IT enterprise

Pentagon has huge blind spots in its spending on OTAs

Army’s top R&D command charts a course for post-pandemic telework

Even as negative audit findings rise, glimmers of progress on DoD’s 2020 financial statement

DoD’s new Adaptive Acquisition Framework takes new approach to tailoring procurement strategies

New financing could start to improve Army housing as soon as this summer

With new cloud policy, Navy moves back to a centralized approach

When fixing Navy readiness problems, money helps. But so does data.

DoD efforts to improve software acquisition hampered by gaps in understanding workforce

Navy seeing ‘explosion’ in use of OTA for IT, cyber development work

DoD’s Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be

Army cutting costs by sharing services with local communities

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