On DoD with Jared Serbu
Each week, Deputy Editor Jared Serbu speaks with the managers of the federal government's largest department.
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We spend a lot of time talking and about the federal hiring process and how long it takes. What gets less attention is the onboarding process: all the steps that have to happen once the…October 27, 2024 -
It would be a bad idea for anyone to predict the exact year in which the Defense Department will relieve itself of its status as the only federal department unable to pass a financial audit.…September 24, 2024
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This episode features two discussions from the 2024 Sea Air Space conference, starting with a focus on sustainment and logistics. Over the past several years, the Navy has been using a sweeping process improvement effort…April 24, 2024
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Federal News Network has covered the difficulties federal employees and military members have seen when it comes to getting access to health care in Japan. On this edition of the show, we’re going to talk…March 28, 2024
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It’s been a decade of major change for the Military Health System in general, and the Defense Health Agency in particular. From its beginning as primarily a shared services provider, DHA has grown to become…November 15, 2023
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On this edition of On DoD, Jared talks with two leaders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) who are experimenting with technologies like 5G and proliferated low-earth orbit satellites. We’ll talk about the…October 26, 2023
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On this edition of On DoD: Up until a year ago, the Office of the Secretary of Defense was a bit of an outlier when it came to IT management and governance. Despite having 19,000…October 19, 2023
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Up until this summer, it wasn’t uncommon for Navy IT users, even at the most senior ranks in the Pentagon, to plan part of their mornings around the 10 minutes it took for their computers…August 23, 2023
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The Pentagon’s decades-old planning and budgeting process doesn’t have a lot of fans – least of all the people who work within it every day. The American Society of Military Comptrollers has been surveying the…July 19, 2023 -
The Pentagon has a new plan to improve technology services inside the actual Pentagon – or big parts of it anyway. The first-ever enterprise IT implementation plan for the Office of the Secretary of Defense…June 7, 2023
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Holly Joers, the program executive officer for Defense Healthcare Management Systems talks with Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu and Jason Miller about DoD’s ongoing deployment of a new electronic heath record, how the new EHR…March 30, 2023
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The expert commission Congress has tasked with proposing overhauls to DoD’s planning and budgeting processes is still a year away from delivering its final report. But the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform…March 10, 2023
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The Air Force believes it’s made significant progress toward improving the cybersecurity of its weapons systems — both brand new ones, and systems that have been fielded for decades. On this episode of On DoD,…March 8, 2023
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A new study by George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting chronicles the ways in which the Defense budgeting process has become increasingly inflexible over the last seven decades, how it’s shackled technological innovation in…December 20, 2022