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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No one particularly likes the way the Defense Department andCongress handle the DoD budgeting process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and veryslow. But the PPBE process, as it’s called, has been encoded into the DNA ofthe Defense…
November 2, 2022
We start this week’s show with an exclusive interview withGabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, about several new initiativesthe Army’s launching to incorporate small, innovative businesses into its technology ecosystem. Later in the program,…
October 12, 2022
When the Navy Department set about the process of simplifying its journey to modern software development, officials decided it didn’t make much sense to reinvent the wheel. So instead of building a software factory and…
July 27, 2022
Maintenance periods for the Navy’s ships and submarines are taking longer than they should. And there are a lot of reasons for that, but one that the Navy’s only recently discovered is that most of…
June 22, 2022
