Section 809 Panel

• The Section 809 Acquisition Advisory Panel

  Deidre Lee, chair of the Section 809 Acquisition Advisory Panel, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the panel's mission and agenda for its ongoing review of DoD acquisition. March 21, 2017

  Off the Shelf

  March 20, 2017
• With most senior positions still vacant, Pentagon must tell Congress how it plans to restructure itself

  In part two of a special report: Defense Acquisition at a Crossroads, Federal News Radio examines the challenges the Defense Department will face as it implements numerous Congressional acquisition reforms, many of which it didn't ask for.

  On DoD

  March 01, 2017
• Federal procurement reforms start by naming the right type of leaders, experts tell Trump

  The Procurement Roundtable, which includes former OFPP administrators, DoD and agency acquisition executives, sent a letter to President Donald Trump with recommendations to improve the federal buying process.

  Reporter's Notebook

  February 13, 2017
• Acquisition & the NDAA

  Jonathan Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the acquisition provisions in the pending National Defense Authorization Act. September 27, 2016

  Off the Shelf

  September 27, 2016
• Pentagon appoints panel to scrub acquisition regulations

  The Defense Department appointed 18 members to yet another advisory committee to study the acquisition system. But this one has a much more specific task than the blue ribbon panels that have come in the decades before it.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  September 06, 2016