Army finds its soldiers are sleep-deprived

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Army finds its soldiers are sleep-deprived

This week's Pentagon Solutions looks at sleep-deprivation among Army soldiers and defective contract at six Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.

Federal News Network Staff

March 23, 2016 2:12 pm

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The Army has just finished its first ever base-by-base study on the health of service members. Among the findings: soldiers, in general, are alarmingly sleep-deprived. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more on the results and how the Army plans to use them on Pentagon Solutions.

One way to get the performance you want out of contractors is to get guarantees. But some guarantees aren’t worth the deck plate they’re engraved on. That’s what the Navy and Coast Guard found out when they ended up paying to correct defects that should have been covered under written guarantees. That’s what the Government Accountability Office found when it review six shipbuilding programs. For more, we turn to Michelle Mackin, GAO’s director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues.