Shelby Oakley

Why DoD has so much trouble delivering new weapons to the front lines

Weapons take too long to develop and field. Dozens of Defense Department acquisition programs are late, slow or over budget.

Defense

Coast Guard still struggling with major acquisition programs

Defense

Lawmakers closing ranks on a bipartisan bill to fix VA’s troubled EHR rollout

IT Modernization

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Why Veterans Affairs has persistent issues with managing acquisition

Agency Oversight

A new look at an old problem: the Pentagon’s weapons procurement

Acquisition

An inside look at the Government Accountability Office

Off the Shelf

GAO advises Navy to be balanced as it acquires new unmanned ships

Navy

VA’s struggling supply chain modernization initiative is under review

Veterans Affairs

Too few DoD program managers using agile methodologies, GAO cautions

Defense

An update on key DoD and VA procurement programs

Off the Shelf

VHA’s pandemic supply chain demand compounded by longstanding issues

Agency Oversight

Columbia-class subs struggle with software trouble, GAO says

Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest from Shelby Oakley, the director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions at the Government Accountability…

Navy

GAO says VA needs to do a better job managing schedule contracts

Shelby Oakley, director of the VA procurement portfolio at the GAO, tells us why they say the agency needs to get a better handle of its schedule contracts.

Contracting

Tugboats move the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk

Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier being decommissioned, but at what cost?

Federal Drive

It may cost more than $10 billion dollars from signing the contract to smashing a champagne bottle on the bow of a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.