Transportation Command

• DoD plans April contract award to fix ‘fundamentally flawed’ moving system

  U.S. Transportation Command said the restructuring it will achieve under the contract is the only way to create "meaningful accountability" in the military's system for moving household goods.

  Defense

  January 31, 2020
• Battle of semantics leads to change in the way combatant commands are named

  Morale and supporting command roles are reasons for the likely change.

  Defense

  January 29, 2020
• Service member household goods woes continue as Congress puts more requirements on centralized contract

  A DoD IG report found more in than 40% of cases it reviewed delivery companies missed dates for service members moving to new homes.

  Defense

  January 08, 2020
• Bicameral bill would even out locality and General Schedule pay

  In today's Federal Newscast, two lawmakers want to even the playing field for hourly wage workers and General Schedule employees who work in the same location.

  Federal Newscast

  December 13, 2019
• DoD using 14 entities as JEDI pathfinders as contract gets underway

  DoD will use U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Transportation Command to test its new cloud.

  Defense

  December 12, 2019
• GAO says GSA is underreporting how much it spent on federal real estate

  In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office found the agencies excluded more than $271 million in building costs per year, between fiscal 2015 through 2018.

  Federal Newscast

  December 11, 2019
• DC delegate wants federal employees to have short-term disability insurance, for a fee

  In today's Federal Newscast, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduces a bill to give federal employees short-term disability insurance, even if it means they'll have to pay for it.

  Federal Newscast

  October 03, 2019
• JEDI award delayed, DoD CIO preparing agencies for its arrival

  DoD's general purpose cloud is coming later than expected.

  Contracting

  June 25, 2019
• DMV lawmakers ask about pay raise…again

  In today's Federal Newscast, several DC area members of Congress want to know if it's realistic for federal employees to expect more money in their next paycheck on March 15.

  Federal Newscast

  March 06, 2019
• USDS’ year-long effort to modernize military relocation site to launch in June

  The U.S. Transportation Command brought in the U.S Digital Service after its Defense Personnel Property System suffered a two-week outage.

  Ask the CIO

  April 26, 2018
• Pentagon quashes DIUx’s billion dollar cloud agreement

  The Pentagon slashes the potential value of REAN Cloud's OTA from $950 million to $65 million, says only U.S. Transportation Command can use it.

  DoD Reporter's Notebook

  March 06, 2018
• Moving to the cloud for DoD becoming a complex acquisition affair

  The Pentagon awards a contract to REAN Cloud that could be worth up to $950 million while also facing a protest of a supporter services contract.

  Defense

  February 09, 2018
• Kelly Mueller McNulty & Gary Hermann: New commercial transportation management system on the way

  U.S. Transcom's Kelly Mueller McNulty and Gary Hermann joined Federal Drive to talk more about 'proof of principle' testing of management system.

  Federal Drive

  January 22, 2018
• With help from DIUx, TRANSCOM on-track to conduct DoD’s first large-scale cloud migration

  U.S. Transportation Command has begun what may well be the most aggressive cloud computing migration the Defense Department has ever attempted, both in terms of its scale and of its pace.

  Defense

  November 13, 2017