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Supply Chain
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When a part is needed for a plane in the Air Force, it usually comes through the 448th Supply Chain Wing in the Air Force Sustainment Center. Ensuring that all those parts get to their destinations, and that they are not tampered with or sabotaged, calls for a good deal of risk management.
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“The key theme, and really everything that’s coming out of the executive order is about resiliency,” said Christine Barnhart, senior director at Infor for supply chain strategy. “The order is about how we make our supply chains less fragile and more resilient. It’s not so much about isolating us from the rest of the world, but really taking out some of the risks, and making sure that we’re able to be self-sustaining at least for a period of time.”
The past 18 months have thrown a wrench in many of the military’s plans, but the supply chain is one that has taken a particularly hard hit. Army Materiel Command had a handful of backups that caused issues for the supply chain during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Defense Logistics Agency is in charge of moving $40 billion worth of goods around the world per year, but when COVID hit and supply chains started moving in fits and starts, the organization had to start changing to get goods delivered on time. Rear Adm. Doug Norton, director of logistics operations for DLA, said DLA worked closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to find ways to deliver quickly in emergency situations.
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Cyber warfare in Ukraine
Marina Tovar, counterintelligence and cyber team lead at the Counterterrorism Group, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss how cyberwarfare is being used in the war in Ukraine, and the rise in ransomware attacks around the world.
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GSA, DIU working together to get non traditional contractors on board
The civilian and Defense sides of the government have taken a big step together to move the Defense Department’s innovative, nontraditional contractors to the mainstream of federal contracting.
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BYOD, app consolidation next for Army digital transformation
Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer, said 20,000 soldiers and civilians will be among the first to use the new bring-your-own-device technology.
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TMF backs NARA digitizing vets’ records, USDA moving to zero trust
The Technology Modernization Fund is backing IT modernization projects at the National Archives and Records Administration and the Agriculture Department.
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State Department intelligence arm to set up open source coordination office
It’s a part of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s new strategic plan, which features a big emphasis on digital modernization.
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Want to know more about weapons systems cyber protection? There’s a webinar for that
More and more, the Defense Department’s weapons systems must be cyber resilient. Now there’s a publicly available webinar for science and engineering people that outlines what DOD calls its Cyber Resilient Weapon Systems Body of Knowledge.
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First HHS chief AI officer sees promise in 100 AI use cases, but challenges moving them forward
The Department of Health and Human Services’ first chief artificial intelligence officer no longer works in the federal government. But he says more agencies and health organizations are following his example, and naming their own chief AI officers.
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What the return-to-the-office means for technology support
For one view of what this means for technology and the investments needed to support the new work mode, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the president of HP Federal Todd Gustafson.
