DoD Reporter's Notebook
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Borrowing from an existing exemption for foreign military sales, DoD wants more flexibility to waive its requirement for vendors to supply cost and pricing data in domestic procurements.
December 12, 2017 -
New leaders in Defense Department IT: Essye Miller is named acting DoD CIO and Rear Adm. Nancy Norton will be DISA director.
December 12, 2017 -
The Defense Department is planning a three-phase rollout of a new personnel system for its cyber workforce.
November 07, 2017 -
DISA will hold its first industry listening session — called "Inside Industry" — during the first week in December.
November 07, 2017 -
The company that won DIUx's first production contract says DoD's new approach let it break an "effective veto" by traditional defense vendors.
November 07, 2017 -
The Army has launched a four-month project to create a new "modernization command," and plans to have it fully functional by next summer.
October 10, 2017 -
The Navy plans to release a draft RFP for an enterprise cloud contract by the end of 2017, saying most systems — including secret ones — will move to the cloud.
October 10, 2017 -
A yearlong study will examine the entire Air Force research enterprise, with a particular focus on investing more funds in university-based research.
September 19, 2017 -
The Navy knows it will need to spend more than $9 billion to renovate its shipyards to meet its current missions. But it hasn't planned for that expenditure, and the Government Accountability Office says it may be a lowball estimate.
September 19, 2017 -
The Navy says there is still no evidence that cyber attacks played a role in the service's two deadly collisions with commercial vessels, but there are several reasons it's continuing to pursue that thread.
September 19, 2017 -
The Pentagon's new Cyber Excepted Service will extend the probationary period for new employees to three years and give hiring managers more flexibility to recruit candidates.
August 30, 2017 -
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) demands answers from the Navy within two weeks about what it's done to address $21 million in waste by an unauthorized police force.
August 30, 2017 -
The new commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service endorses a controversial House proposal that would enlist online commercial marketplaces like Amazon to let the government buy commercial goods.
July 18, 2017 -
The top two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are floating a proposal that would finally allow another round of military base closures several years from now. Here's how it would work.
July 18, 2017 -
The Defense Department has started testing one potential technology to replace the Common Access Card. This one purports to identify users by the ways in which they manipulate their mouse and type on their keyboards.
July 05, 2017