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At DoD, a new effort to fix civilian employee onboarding

A new plan offers short and long-term recommendations to streamline the 90-or-so steps it takes to onboard employees in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Federal Report

At DoD, glimmers of hope for budget reform

Workforce

DoD, State Dept streamline process for federal employees to telework overseas

Defense News

2025 budget includes $850 billion for Defense, 4.5% military pay raise

Defense News

2024 NDAA one piece to help DoD focus on taking care of its personnel

Defense News

DoD’s new AI strategy focuses on adoption

Defense News

Defense Department’s Replicator program must increase its speed

FILE - The inside of a computer is seen on Feb 23, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J. A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to boost chip manufacturing and research in the United States with billions of dollars from the federal government. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Contracting

Pentagon chooses 8 new 'hubs' to lead $2B effort to revitalize US microelectronics

A U.S. Army Soldier prepares a RQ-11 Raven B for flight during the field training portion of a Unmanned Aerial System operator’s course on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 10, 2018. The course was held by the New Jersey Army National Guard’s 254th Regional Training Institute, which is based out of Sea Girt, N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

Defense

Pentagon to build unmanned systems to compete with China

Defense Budget

Defense

Senate NDAA would bring chief management officer back to Pentagon

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Defense

A new plan for DoD records management

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

Federal Newscast

DoD official talks mental health at Georgetown

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

Defense

A new way to organize management at DoD

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Defense

IT user experience gets low grades in Defense Business Board study

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Defense News

DoD plans to hire 2,000 personnel for ‘first of its kind’ prevention workforce

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week of March 13, 2020 that the Defense Department “wishes to reconsider its award decision” and take another look at how it evaluated technical aspects of the companies' proposals to run the $10 billion computing project. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Contracting

CDAO sees contracting as a way to build innovation

Kathleen Hicks

Defense

DoD confronting 'Valley of Death,' other innovation bottlenecks

Kathleen Hicks

Defense

The stakes are high for DoD's future civilian workforce

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Defense

Now operational DoD chief digital and AI office will be an example of innovation, officials say

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Defense

How much does inflation actually matter to DoD and can it be fixed?

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Defense

DoD budget contains big pay raise and largest research investment ever

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks participates in a virtual Center for Strategic and International Studies Smart Women, Smart Power conversation, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1, 2021. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

Defense

DoD mulls how to return to office, promises telework is here to stay

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Defense

Why better decision-making, not just money, is key to military superiority