DoD Reporter's Notebook
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With new Rapid Sustainment Office, Air Force looks to cut costs it pays to vendors for boutique parts that it could manufacture on its own.
July 31, 2018 -
The Pentagon says it's upholding the original intent of the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill by insisting that a key component of the bill is not an entitlement, and only a retention incentive.
July 17, 2018 -
New Pentagon guidance lets contracting officers make awards based on informal peer reviews of commercial vendors' wares, instead of head-to-head competitions
July 17, 2018 -
The Pentagon clarifies CIO's new role in "cloud initiative." Dana Deasy's portfolio of responsibilities includes the JEDI contract, but it's not clear what else.
July 03, 2018 -
The Navy awards a $100 million contract to operate the government's latest consortium of companies aiming to get in on the military's increasing reliance on other transaction agreements.
July 03, 2018 -
Senate's NDAA says DoD has failed to deliver on a military health reorganization Congress ordered two years ago, and mandates more specific reforms.
June 19, 2018 -
The Senate's Defense policy bill claims DoD has dragged its feet on previously-ordered management reforms that would create cross-functional teams to solve business challenges.
June 19, 2018 -
The Senate's NDAA orders SOCOM to transfer dozens of personnel to the Pentagon office in charge of overseeing it. In the 2017 NDAA, Congress reorganized the chain of command for special operations.
June 19, 2018 -
The House's version of the annual Defense policy bill would let the military onboard new officers with outside cyber expertise up to the rank of Army colonel or Navy captain.
May 22, 2018 -
The Army is looking at new steps to boost military spouse employment, potentially including new authorities to hire them as civilian employees.
May 22, 2018 -
The office of the undersecretary for personnel and readiness has five Senate-confirmable positions and up until now, Robert Wilkie’s seat was the only one the Trump administration had managed to fill.
May 22, 2018 -
Among more than 1,000 questions about DoD's upcoming JEDI contract, dozens of vendors questioned its single-award approach. But the Pentagon isn't changing its strategy.
April 17, 2018 -
In the absence of congressional permission for base closures, the Defense Department has decided to invest heavily in demolishing structures on existing bases that are no longer worth saving.
April 17, 2018 -
U.S. Maritime Administration says it's 1,800 civilian sailors short of what it needs to achieve its national security mission.
April 17, 2018 -
Army acquisition chief says government-industry relationships over intellectual property have become too "sloppy."
April 03, 2018