DoD Reporter's Notebook
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An update to an earlier DoD Reporter's Notebook item on the Pentagon embarking on a new review of the department's use of lowest-price technically acceptable (LPTA) contract awards.
February 23, 2015 -
After having gotten a partial, two-year reprieve from sequestration, the original caps Congress set for the Defense Department in the Budget Control Act (BCA) are scheduled to go back into effect in October.
February 23, 2015 -
The service's ambitious plan to replace its legacy communications circuits. with an everything-over-IP infrastructure that can handle voice, video, chat and lots of other collaboration tools looks like it's going to be delayed.
February 09, 2015 -
The Army Force Generation process is on its way out - apparently as a casualty of reduced force structure.
February 09, 2015 -
Energy has been a hot topic within DoD for the last several years, with each of the military services pledging to reduce their overall consumption and get at least 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.
February 09, 2015 -
As part of a major public health campaign called the "performance triad" the Army wants its soldiers to have healthy exercise, nutrition and sleep routines.
February 09, 2015 -
Defense Information Systems Agency's top cybersecurity official, Mark Orndorff, will join us for both a radio interview and a live online chat this week.
January 26, 2015 -
In a nutshell, the Office of the Inspector General's auditors seem to feel that VA hasn't committed the resources it needs to achieve its vision of wrestling its programs into a framework of accountability.
January 26, 2015 -
The new Installation and Mission Support Center will be based at Joint Base San Antonio, the Air Force announced this week - disappointing other contenders in the communities around Scott AFB in Illinois, Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia and Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
January 26, 2015 -
A new Pentagon report shows a troubling proportion of DoD's IT systems appears to be vulnerable to low- or intermediate-level hackers, leaving aside the advanced persistent threats everyone's worried about.
January 26, 2015 -
Jessica Wright, who's served as the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness since January 2013, announced on Thursday that she'll be retiring at the end of March.
December 08, 2014 -
Industry seems to think "lowest-price technically acceptable" contracts are pervasive and are causing many firms to lose money on contracts. But Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, has told us before that he suspects a few high-profile cases have blown the whole thing out of proportion.
December 08, 2014 -
This week, the Pentagon awarded a series of contracts to outside accounting firms to begin the widest-ranging series of external financial audits in the department's history.
December 08, 2014 -
The Pentagon is making some adjustments to the role of its chief information officer, intended in part to help lay down where the CIO's role begins and ends with respect to DoD's still-developing cyber doctrine.
December 08, 2014 -
The Pentagon has been relying on teleconferencing for decades. The downside is that much of the equipment and technology DoD relies on for video teleconferences (VTCs) has been around for decades.
November 24, 2014