Kathleen Hicks

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Defense Deputy Secretary Hicks urges Congress to pass 2024 NDAA

The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act is critical to support the nation’s military personnel as 40% of the budget will go towards personnel matters…

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

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U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)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)

Pentagon to build unmanned systems to compete with China

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Senate NDAA would bring chief management officer back to Pentagon

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Defense Management Institute looks to centralize unwieldy DoD management

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IT user experience gets low grades in Defense Business Board study

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Kathleen Hicks

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

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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)

CDAO sees contracting as a way to build innovation

The Defense Department’s newest office is being billed as a new and innovative way to approach technology and data in the military, but the office’s…

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DoD confronting ‘Valley of Death,’ other innovation bottlenecks

The Defense Department is evaluating its own processes with an eye toward making it easier for small companies to provide innovative solutions.

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The stakes are high for DoD’s future civilian workforce

DoD’s approach to its civilian workforce is stale, but its next moves need to be the right ones if it wants to keep bringing in the best.

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