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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 10, 2009) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Ryan Allshouse uses the intrusion detection system to monitor unclassified network activity from the automated data processing workspace aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). IDS is part of the integrated shipboard network system and serves as an important computer network defense enabler protecting the unclassified shipboard network from cyber attack. (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released)

Navy says it’s achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to ‘fix our computers’

In pilot projects, relatively-straightforward software changes have let Navy computers boot as much as 18 times faster than they did before. Officials…

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DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system

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Despite initial challenges, DoD on track to finish deployment of new EHR by next year

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Air Force finds ways to bake cybersecurity into weapons systems, and bolt it on where necessary

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How DoD’s own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the ‘valley of death’

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Army launches several new initiatives to incorporate small firms’ technologies into its systems

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To institutionalize DevSecOps, Navy’s Black Pearl aims to ‘commoditize the boring stuff’

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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2019 file photo, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) moors at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London, Conn. The Navy is proposing construction cutbacks and accelerated ship retirements that would delay, or sink, the Navy’s goal of a larger fleet — and potentially hurt shipyards, according to an initial proposal. The proposal would shrink the size of the fleet from today’s level of 293 ships to 287 ships, a far cry from the official goal of 355 ships established in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day via AP, File)

Navy’s data-driven approach to sustainment finds huge room for improvement in ship maintenance

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Four years into DoD financial audits, IG says progress has stalled

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One National Guard unit’s idea to improve efficiency: spend less time filling out forms

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Nowhere safe to hide: What online harassment is doing to service members and the military

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Departing DoD software boss says success or failure boils down to leadership

Pockets of DoD have proven they can produce world-class code, but there’s a lot of work ahead to make agile development the norm, the department’s first-ever…

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In this Jan. 19, 2019, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the entrance to Tank 19 at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is seen. The Navy is scrambling to contain what one lawmaker has called a

The logistics of fuel storage in INDOPACOM and the military’s moving contract

On this episode of On DoD, a bit of a logistics focus. First, we talk with Tim Walton, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, about DoD’s somewhat surprising…

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DoD’s Danielle Metz on how the multibillion dollar JWCC cloud contract will actually work

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On this episode, an extended discussion with Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise. Metz explains how Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle will actually compete for work under the up to…