On DoD Podcasts
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On this week’s edition of On DoD: An update on the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation. The NIE process for testing and integrating new technology into the Army’s inventory is several years old now, but it’s undergoing…
October 14, 2015 Three guests from the Defense Information Systems Agency talk about various aspects of cloud computing.
September 25, 2015-
On this week’s edition of On DoD, we continue our series of conversations with leaders from the Defense Health Agency as it gears up to declare full operational capability on Oct. 1. Our guest this…
September 16, 2015 On this week’s edition of On DoD, we take a look at the Army’s current downsizing plan, which will take the service down to 450,000 active duty soldiers by 2017, its smallest size since before…
August 26, 2015-
On this week’s edition of On DoD, we take a deep-dive into DoD’s small business program. Last month, the Small Business Administration announced that for a second year in a row, the federal government met…
August 14, 2015 -
On this week\'s edition of On DoD, a progress report on the Pentagon\'s path toward what officials refer to as Joint Information Environment (JIE): the long effort to reorganize the military services\' IT systems into a more cohesive structure, leverage shared enterprise services and a single security architecture and reduce duplicative IT expenditures.
June 18, 2015 -
On this week\'s On DoD, Jared Serbu talks to two of the officials overseeing the Joint Information Environment effort from the DoD CIO\'s office.
June 17, 2015 -
The Army is reexamining its recruitment process. The ultimate goal is to refine the recruiting process so the service still attains top-notch soldiers without \"industrial age\" metrics that only measure raw numbers of recruits.
June 16, 2015 -
Our guest for this edition of On DoD is Vice Adm. Bill Moran, the Chief of Naval Personnel. He\'s a second-time guest: In September, he described his frustrations with the existing military personnel system and some of the ideas the Navy was exploring to remedy them.
June 09, 2015 - On DoD: Pentagon’s new nurse advice line closes gap in after-hours medical care for military members
On this week\'s edition of On DoD, Regina Julian, the chief of primary care for the Defense Health Agency joins Jared Serbu to talk about DoD\'s new nurse advice line.
May 12, 2015 -
The Defense Health Agency is the newest of the combat support organizations that provide services to all of the military departments.
April 20, 2015 -
In the absence of congressional authorization for another BRAC round, the Pentagon contemplates \"alternative options\" for base closure. Meanwhile, defense communities see fewer personnel spread across the same number of bases.
April 08, 2015 -
Navy officials plan an industry day to formally launch a new framework for IT procurement, designed to work within the existing acquisition system to much more rapidly insert commercial technologies into Navy networks.
March 24, 2015 -
Richard Ginman, the director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, left government late last month. In an interview with Federal News Radio's On DoD a few days before his retirement, he reflected on what's changed during his 42-year career, and what hasn't.
March 10, 2015 -
An independent report cites a "fee-for-service" model as a main driver in DoD's rising medical costs, and urges the department to value outcomes over volume in upcoming TRICARE procurement.
February 19, 2015