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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Like the other military services, the Air Force has knowingly underfunded its facility maintenance accounts in recent years while its O&M budgets have been squeezed. But officials have come to the conclusion that they’ll never…April 3, 2019 -
It’s not easy for DoD contracting officers to determine whether they’re getting fair and reasonable prices, particularly when they’re dealing with relatively small-dollar value transactions where there is only one supplier. That’s according to a…March 14, 2019
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We’re turning this week’s show over to Federal News Network’s Jason Miller, who recently talked to several experts about a recently-released DIA report that listed more than three dozen research reports the agency funded as…March 7, 2019
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On this week’s program, two senior Navy IT officials join Jared Serbu to talk about the service’s latest plans for identity and cloud computing. Capt. Ben McNeal, the program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks (PMW-205),…February 20, 2019
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The documentation accompanying DoD’s first-ever financial audit is tough for non-auditors to decipher. But as part of its work this year, the DoD Inspector General also released an explanation of the results in layman’s language;…January 30, 2019
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We have two guests on this week’s show: Brett Mansfield, senior advisor to the Principal Deputy DoD Inspector General talks with Jared Serbu about DoD’s top ten management challenges for 2019. Also, Adm. John Richardson,…January 2, 2019
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The Defense Department has survived the first protest of its JEDI Cloud contract. But there’s at least one more – and mostly likely several more – still to come. Lauren Brier, an associate attorney with…November 28, 2018
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It has been a little over a year since the Army began making some fairly monumental changes to its IT networks, including by cancelling the $6 billion dollar Warfighter Information Network Tactical (WIN-T). Two of…October 31, 2018
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If you’ve never heard of a Defense Department organization called Joint Task Force Civil Support, that’s understandable. And arguably, it’s a good thing. JTF-CS may be the smallest task force in the military’s force structure:…October 11, 2018
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The general topic of human capital management has been on the Government Accountability Office’s list of federal “high risk” areas since 2001. But the Defense Department has come to the conclusion that deficiencies in its…September 30, 2018
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The Army wants to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help its electronic warfare officers sort out signal from noise on the battlefield. And to pick the best solutions, it’s using an innovative approach.…September 12, 2018
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For the second year in a row, the Defense department’s inspector general has just released a “compendium” of open recommendations. The document is a list of all the recommendations the DOD IG has issued to…August 22, 2018
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The Army already owns what amounts to fully-functional city it uses that it uses for traditional military training events in southeastern Indiana. But until recently, it hasn’t been used for cyber training. Officials have high…August 15, 2018
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Ever since they first announced the idea last Fall, Army leaders have intended the new Army Futures Command to serve as a single entity to oversee the service’s sprawling acquisition and modernization bureaucracy. AFC is…August 1, 2018