On DoD Podcasts
The Defense Department spends billions of dollars each year to buy and build software — not just in its enterprise IT systems, but, increasingly, as a vital aspect of each and every one of the weapons…
September 14, 2016On this week’s edition of On DoD: As Congressional staff continue to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions of the 2017 Defense authorization bill, both chambers have posed items framed as “reforms” to the…
August 31, 2016In this week’s edition of On DoD, we discuss what the Air Force’s Space Command calls a “transformation” of its workforce. As we reported on Aug. 8, just after the Air Force released a new…
August 10, 2016-
By the end of this calendar year, the Defense Department plans to deliver new assessments of the cost and scope of the Joint Information Environment, the ambitious, four-year-old project to unify an estimated 15,000 IT…
August 03, 2016 -
The Army Logistics Maintenance Program eliminated $2 billion in costs for old systems maintenance and cut $4 billion in “spare” parts the Army doesn't need.
July 25, 2016 -
A new report from a Washington-based think tank points to an ever-widening disconnect between the size of the Defense Department’s Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund and the troop levels it was originally meant to pay for.
June 15, 2016 -
For the past two years, the Defense Department has been heightening its focus on the subject of professionalism: In 2014, then-secretary Chuck Hagel appointed DoD’s first-ever senior advisor for military professionalism in the wake of a…
April 27, 2016 Although as a general matter the Defense Department has been slow to embrace commercial cloud computing, the Navy has implemented two new practices it hopes will speed things up. The Navy is the first military service…
March 23, 2016-
This week’s show features two guests on two topics. We begin with Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, the commander of the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command. We invited him on the program to talk about…
March 09, 2016 -
The Army uses Other Transaction Authority to buy cyber prototypes and hopes to use IT Box to deploy them broadly.
February 15, 2016 -
Col. Darby McNulty, the project officer for Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, said the Army still faces many challenges in getting soldiers their active-duty pay.
January 20, 2016 On this week’s edition of On DoD, we get acquainted with Navy Cybersecurity. The new organization will have a permanent home within the office of the chief of Naval operations and will carry on the work of…
December 23, 2015In March, the Navy announced a new project to speed its adoption of commercial information technology and short-circuit the most cumbersome parts of the government acquisition process. The Innovation Cell, a project of the service’s…
November 25, 2015The Defense Department is certifying to Congress that the patient data in its existing electronic health record is interoperable with the Department of Veterans Affairs and with some private sector medical providers. But the assurance did…
November 18, 2015-
On this week’s edition of on DoD: An exit interview with Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, the director of the Defense Health Agency. As we went to air, he was scheduled to relinquish the directorship of…
October 28, 2015