On this week’s edition of On DoD, we go a bit deeper into Federal News Radio’s series, Danger at High Speed: OTAs in Action. This edition of the program features some of the extended interviews…

For the Navy, a new $100 million other transaction agreement focusing on information warfare isn’t just a way to turn government requirements into prototypes and fielded products at a faster clip than is possible under…

Last year, the White House called on all federal agencies to draw up plans to reduce the government’s civilian workforce. The Defense Department responded with a plan that explicitly rejected the presumption that civilian employees…

Naval Supply Systems Command is not suffering from a lack of data. But the information it holds about its responsibilities to move food, parts and supplies around the world tends to be unstructured, trapped in…

The Section 809 Panel — the commission Congress chartered to study reforms to the federal acquisition system — is already seeing some of its work reflected in federal legislation. The House’s version of the 2019…

DISA’s milCloud 2.0 is about to get a wave of new customers, thanks to a Pentagon mandate to move “fourth estate” applications to the new service.

In this week’s edition of On DoD, Robert Behler, the Defense Department’s new Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, talks with Jared Serbu about new procedures the department is using to test the cybersecurity of…

A special edition of On DoD: This week’s program is an abridged version of a panel discussion at the annual Sea Air Space conference with the personnel chiefs of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast…

Some members of Congress and some corners of the Defense Department have become enamored of the idea of using other transaction authorities instead of traditional contracts as the way to force the DoD acquisition system…

Glenn Fine, the Defense Department’s principal deputy inspector general joins us in the first half of this week’s show to talk about the audit of DoD’s consolidated financial statements, and some of the internal changes…

Under this year’s Defense authorization bill, the Defense Department has until June to start moving much of its custom-developed software source code to a central repository and begin managing and licensing it via open source…

Rear. Adm. Danelle Barrett, the Navy’s chief information officer is our guest for the full hour this week. She and Jared Serbu spend the bulk of the hour discussing some major changes her office has…

It’s now been a little over a year since the secretary of the Army issued a highly-prescriptive directive telling its commands and installations exactly which IT systems needed to move from which data centers, which…

There’s no shortage of members of Congress who have been pounding the table for DoD to get its financial statements in order so that the department can pass a clean audit. There are only a…