On DoD
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Tom Temin spoke with Army Major Mark Cervantes, assistant product manager for the Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, about how network integration is getting intelligence into the hands of combat troops on the battlefield.
November 03, 2010 -
The Army has filled two of its highest acquisition jobs. Heidi Shyu has been appointed principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology. Scott Fish is its new chief scientist.
November 03, 2010 -
Changes in the Pentagon\'s contracting process are taken from Jacques Gansler\'s 2007 report commissioned by Army Secretary Pete Geren.
November 02, 2010 -
Ray Bjorklund, senior vice president and chief knowledge officer at FedSources, discussed the confusion surrounding the Army\'s EAGLE contract.
November 02, 2010 -
Army leaders promised to leave family support programs intact when looking for ways to lean out the service\'s massive budget.
November 01, 2010 -
A pair of memos requires facilities worldwide to improve how they construct buildings to be more green and to use different light bulbs. The goal is to conserve energy, be environmentally responsible, and save taxpayer dollars.
November 01, 2010 -
The Army Knowledge Online portal is one of the apps that is currently in use and evolving. Gary Winkler, head of the Army\'s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, talked about it with the DorobekINSIDER.
October 28, 2010 -
Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli stops short of saying the entire acquisition system should be scrapped but he is pushing for big changes.
October 28, 2010 -
The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week\'s test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.
October 28, 2010 -
On Thursday 109 cyber experts are graduating from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio. The Institute\'s Brigadier General Walter Givhan and Dean Heidi Ries joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the Institute\'s history.
October 27, 2010 -
DoD is preparing for massive budget cuts, but military officers warn not to touch career incentives.
October 27, 2010 -
The U.S. Army Sustainment Command has awarded Honeywell logistics contracts worth more than $230 million to manage global inventory, maintenance and operations for three Army Field Support Brigades.
October 27, 2010 -
In the name of efficiency, the Army is making what it calls a big change in the way that it manages e-mail. The service said the move is designed to save millions of dollars at a time when the secretary of Defense is mandating significant savings.
October 26, 2010 -
For years, the biggest renewable-energy project in the Air Force was a 140-acre solar array at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. It produces about 14-point-2 megawatts of electricity annually. Air Force engineers are now set to outdo that project with plans to build three new larger solar arrays by the year 2013.Officials at the Davis Monthan and Luke Air Force Bases in Arizona are planning even larger solar arrays to be constructed, owned, and operated by SunEdison Company. The Davis Monthan project is expected to generate 14-and-a-half megawatts of solar energy, delivering 35-percent of that bases energy needs. Meantime, officials at Luke have teamed up with the Arizona Public Service Company to build a 15-megawatt solar array on 100 acres of under-utilized base property. That project could produce enough energy to satisfy half of the base\'s energy needs, potentially saving up to 10 million dollars on utility bills over the next quarter-century.
October 25, 2010 -
Across the government, chief information officers are being asked to modernize technology systems more quickly and in smaller, more modular programs -- and for less money. But what happens when your network is on a moving ship?
October 25, 2010