Congress
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The Defense Innovation Board, tasked by Congress with finding ways to lower DoD's software acquisition costs and speed projects up, says the department needs to begin by asking different questions of its development teams.
July 12, 2018 -
Special hiring authorities for personnel working in government-owned depots are set to expire in September.
July 04, 2018 -
Don Bell, director of the black talent initiative at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, has been poring over the data and has some ideas for how Congress can fix it.
July 03, 2018 -
In the second of three volumes laying out fixes for DoD's acquisition system, the Section 809 panel says a "program-centric" approach leads to sluggish decisions.
June 29, 2018 -
As part of a revived effort to manage contractors, civilians and military personnel as a "total force," DoD intends to propose a new way to conduct public-private competitions.
June 28, 2018 -
Robert Wilkie, the president's nominee for secretary of Veterans Affairs, said he would faithfully implement the VA MISSION Act, but oppose efforts to fully-privatize VA health care.
June 28, 2018 -
Senate's NDAA says DoD has failed to deliver on a military health reorganization Congress ordered two years ago, and mandates more specific reforms.
June 19, 2018 -
The Senate's Defense policy bill claims DoD has dragged its feet on previously-ordered management reforms that would create cross-functional teams to solve business challenges.
June 19, 2018 -
The Senate's NDAA orders SOCOM to transfer dozens of personnel to the Pentagon office in charge of overseeing it. In the 2017 NDAA, Congress reorganized the chain of command for special operations.
June 19, 2018 -
Based on recommendations from the Section 809 Panel, the House has proposed the first major reforms in 25 years to DoD's buying of commercial items. But the Senate wants more study.
June 13, 2018 -
Senate NDAA, House appropriations bill each would impose new preconditions on the Pentagon's controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure
June 08, 2018 -
Back from vacation, Congress faces the immigration stalemate, tensions over new tariffs, and a power struggle over whether to privatize the care of veterans
June 05, 2018 -
The House's version of the annual Defense policy bill would let the military onboard new officers with outside cyber expertise up to the rank of Army colonel or Navy captain.
May 22, 2018 -
The office of the undersecretary for personnel and readiness has five Senate-confirmable positions and up until now, Robert Wilkie’s seat was the only one the Trump administration had managed to fill.
May 22, 2018 -
Pentagon's new rationale for JEDI: A multiple-award contract would slow the process of migrating military computing to the cloud.
May 15, 2018