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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The Defense acquisition workforce has faced challenges at other times in its history, but as of 2021, it’s living in interesting times. Contracting officers, program managers and other acquisition professionals are navigating their way through…September 30, 2021 -
Rear Admiral Pete Stamatopoulos, the commander of Naval Supply Systems Command joins us to talk about Naval Sustainment System-Supply — NAVSUP’s effort to provide Navy leadership with a holistic and businesslike approach to the Navy’s…August 15, 2021
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On this edition of On DoD, Jared Serbu speaks with Maj. Gen. (ret.) Arnold Punaro, who’s just released a new book, The Ever-Shrinking Fighting Force. Punaro, a former staff director of the Senate Armed Services…July 31, 2021
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On this week’s show, Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise talks with Jared Serbu about the shutdown of Commercial Virtual Remote. CVR, the service DoD created to let employees work…June 18, 2021
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If you’re curious about exactly where DoD is spending its money on other transaction agreements (OTAs), you won’t find satisfying answers in any public spending databases. When the military services award OTAs through third party…May 13, 2021
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On this week’s show, John Willison, the top civilian leader at Army Combat Capabilities Development Command joins Jared Serbu to discuss how DEVCOM is thinking about telework in a post-pandemic environment. In a recent survey,…March 31, 2021
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The Defense Department is now onto its fourth year of full-scale financial audits. At first glance, the results from the first three years aren’t encouraging: DoD has more auditor-identified financial problems now than it did…March 24, 2021
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In this edition of On DoD, the Defense Acquisition University’s Mike Coolican joins Jared Serbu to explain the fundamentals of DoD’s new Adaptive Acquisition Framework, and why this rewrite of the 5000 series is different…March 15, 2021
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Under a new agreement with LendLease, a large military housing operator, $1.1 billion in debt-financed housing improvements are expected to start as soon as May across six large Army bases. To explain how the deal…February 11, 2021
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The Defense Production Act is a special presidential authority we heard about quite a bit toward the beginning of the pandemic as the Trump administration used it to procure personal protective equipment, vaccine-related supplies and…January 27, 2021
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The Navy Department is making some big changes to how it buys and uses commercial cloud computing services. Within the next few months, all the Navy and Marine Corps’ cloud purchases will be funneled through…January 6, 2021
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Like the other military services, the Navy has been working in recent years to improve the readiness of its aviation fleets – especially since cuts under the Budget control Act almost a decade ago dealt…December 16, 2020
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A new Pentagon working group is trying to bring more rigor to DoD’s management of its software acquisition workforce. But the department faces a major hurdle: it knows almost nothing about the workforce as it…December 4, 2020
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In August, the Navy announced it was increasing the ceiling value for its Information Warfare Research Project OTA to $500 million. That’s after IWRP exhausted its initial 100 million dollar ceiling in just a little…November 18, 2020