Department of Defense
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A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the US losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen.
July 19, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is moving nearly $1 billion of its funds to cover rising fuel costs.
July 12, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon wants input from industry as part of a new study on the financial health of the Defense industrial base
July 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department wasted an estimated $5 million in a single year by buying items it already had in its inventory.
June 21, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an influential DoD advisory group says the Defense Department needs to pay a lot more management attention to its civilian workforce.
May 23, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department says it may need more money in 2023 to offset inflation.
May 05, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is working with other agencies to defeat cancer.
May 04, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, rising oil prices tend to raise the cost of just about everything – including running a military.
May 03, 2022 -
Nicolas Chaillan, former Air Force and Space Force chief software officer, joins Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to talk about his experience in leading the Department of Defense through the software development process.
April 14, 2022 -
As Defense focuses on strategies for meeting the Biden administration energy and sustainability directive, it’s joined with GSA to seek input from industry on ideas across a range of net-zero energy sources. Read more now.
April 11, 2022 -
Sensors gather the data on the battlefield. Information systems like AI and machine learning process that data faster, for better decision making. But what’s talked about far less often is the infrastructure that connects them.
March 18, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Defense is facing a protest of its $11 billion IT contract award.
March 15, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense and State departments have been working together for months to evacuate and house Afghan refugees on U.S. military bases, but still don’t have any written agreements formalizing those arrangements.
March 07, 2022 -
On this episode, we talk with Acquisition experts Stan Soloway and Jason Knudsen on their ground-breaking report on the expanding use of Other Transaction Authority (OTAs) in the federal procurement market and then catch up with innovation leader Jim Cook on the recently released President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda.
March 04, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the departments of Defense and Labor and the Small Business Administration stopped the federal government from fully understanding the state of their finances.
February 28, 2022