Defense Department
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As of last week, all of the Defense Department components that fall under the direct control of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) are barred from hiring any new civilian employees.
March 28, 2016 -
Within the next month, the Navy expects to issue a request for proposals to support a new concept it’s calling the “Cloud Store.”
March 28, 2016 -
Peter Levine, DoD’s deputy chief management officer, told a House subcommittee that his office's problem with deploying business IT systems boils down to too many cooks in the kitchen.
March 28, 2016 -
The Defense Department inspector general took a look at 48 performance assessment reports prepared by the Air Force and found some weaknesses. Michael Roark, assistant Defense IG for contractor management, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why Performance Assessment Reports are important and how they're being used.
March 25, 2016 -
Dakota Wood, senior research fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the Defense Department defines modernization and how that differs from what it calls "new capabilities".
March 25, 2016 -
This week's Pentagon Solutions looks at sleep-deprivation among Army soldiers and defective contract at six Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.
March 23, 2016 -
View a video of the USS Hartford surfacing near the Arctic Circle as part of Ice Exercise 2016.
March 21, 2016 -
Adm. Mike Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, told Congress that increased investments in cybersecurity are a reflection of the world we live in, responding to Representatives concerned about rising budget deficits and potential future cuts to DoD.
March 17, 2016 -
The Navy and Coast Guard found out that guarantees aren't worth the deck plate they're engraved on when they ended up paying to correct defects that should have been covered. Michelle Mackin, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about GAO's review of six shipbuilding programs.
March 17, 2016 -
Rep. Mac Thornberry's (R-Texas) next round of Defense reform focuses on open architectures, cutting duplicate oversight
March 16, 2016 -
The Office of Information Policy published data on FOIA request processing from the annual reports of 100 agencies.
March 15, 2016 -
In just a couple of weeks the Defense Department will start rolling out a new performance rating system called New Beginnings. Don Hale, chairman of the American Federation of Government Employees tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that none of its quarter million DoD employees are included in the initial test group.
March 15, 2016 -
Pentagon Solutions talks to Charles Tiefer, law professor at the University of Baltimore, and Kelly Sayler, associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
March 14, 2016 -
The 2017 Pentagon budget request looks a lot like the 2016 one, maybe a little more so. The well-known and costly platforms are all in there, from the F-35 to modernizing the nuclear arsenal. Law professor Charles Tiefer shares his thoughts on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about some of the big drivers of waste.
March 08, 2016 -
Marie Mak, director of acquisition and sourcing issues at the Government Accountability Office, appears on Pentagon Solutions.
March 07, 2016