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Federal News Network's deputy editor, Jared Serbu, speaks one-on-one and in depth with the people responsible for managing the inner workings of the federal government's largest department, and those who know it best.
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Improving the employee onboarding process across the Office of the Secretary of Defense
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Where we stand on DoD's long path toward a clean financial audit
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Navy's sustainment system refocuses on real-world readiness
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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In Japan, half of military spouse health workers unemployed amid 'shortage' of providers
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Commercial technologies are about to completely redefine IT capabilities in the Navy's afloat community
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices as new OSD CIO marks its one-year anniversary
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Pentagon has a new plan for 'customer-led' IT service delivery
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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An update on DoD's deployment of MHS Genesis
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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A progress report from the commission tasked with overhauling DoD's 60-year-old budgeting process
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Air Force finds ways to bake cybersecurity into weapons systems, and bolt it on where necessary
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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How DoD's own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the 'valley of death'
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Getting to work on fixes to the Pentagon's broken budgeting system
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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New initiatives to bring small businesses into the Army technology ecosystem, and a big acceleration of BYOD
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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To institutionalize DevSecOps, Navy's Black Pearl aims to 'commoditize the boring stuff'
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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One reason Navy ship maintenance is taking too long: workers stuck waiting for supplies
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Five years into DoD financial audits, progress has stalled
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Va. National Guard's 'Smart Weapon' aims to stop wasting airmen's time on paperwork
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May 19, 2022 |
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Federal News Network Special Report | Nowhere safe to hide: What online harassment is doing to service members and the military
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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How the Pentagon's first chief software officer sees the state of software management in DoD
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The logistics of fuel storage in INDOPACOM and the military's moving contract
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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DoD's Danielle Metz on how the multibillion dollar JWCC cloud contract will actually work
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Army's DEVCOM takes 'future of work' from concept to reality
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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DoD's new moving contract and the Army's new unified network plan
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Demystifying Other Transaction Agreements
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Top priorities for two of the Pentagon's newest senior technology executives
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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DAU leadership's take on the future of Defense acquisition
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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New approach to Navy readiness gives leaders ways to measure bang for bucks
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Why the fighting force is 'ever shrinking' despite robust Defense budgets
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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RIP Commercial Virtual Remote, the tool that forced DoD to behave like an IT enterprise
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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13 ways the Defense Department needs to tighten its oversight of other transaction agreements
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May 13, 2021 |
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Army’s top R&D command charts a course for post-pandemic telework
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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A plain language version of what DoD's latest financial audit found
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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What DoD's new Adaptive Acquisition Framework really means
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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New financing could start to improve Army housing as soon as this summer
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Defense Production Act and how the Biden administration might use it
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Big changes coming to how the Navy and Marine Corps buy cloud computing services
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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How the Navy is using data analytics, AI to boost aviation readiness
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Pentagon can't fix software acquisition until it gains a better understanding of its own workforce
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Navy came late to the OTA game, but spending on IT, cyber now 'exploding'
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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DoD's Space Development Agency shows how fast the FAR can be
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Army cutting costs by sharing services with local communities
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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How the Army is rethinking its financial managment systems (it's not just an IT problem)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Unresolved IG recommendations piling up at DoD
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Pentagon CMO claims billions more in savings as Congress seeks to eliminate the position
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Pentagon IG offers advice for effective contracting during pandemic
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Navy aims to unify its IT networks with NGEN-R contract
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May 21, 2020 |
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Federal agencies apply supercomputing resources toward COVID-19 pandemic
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Pentagon releases last of four solicitations to test 5G technologies
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Nearly 200 military doctors, nurses graduating early to help with coronavirus
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Navy's 'RAISED' process aims to reduce cybersecurity approval processes from months to one day
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Defense Innovation Unit picks 5 commerical companies to help military counter small drones
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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DIU picks 5 commerical companies to help military counter small drones
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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2019 Pentagon audit shows some signs of progress, OIG says
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Pivotal year for overhaul of Army's contracting IT systems
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Army's Project Sentinel aims to fix authorization bottleneck for IT systems
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Family and supply chain issues join Pentagon's top management challenges this year
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher and Maj. Gen. David Bassett on the Army's integrated tactical network
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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With new ad campaign, Army wants to highlight its 'breadth and depth'
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Dr. Bruce Jette, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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How the Army will 'ruthlessly' enforce its forthcoming data strategy
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Building a 'Digital Air Force'
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Navy's new 'strategic' approach to supplier management
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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DoD IG's ADR program yields major increase in resolved whistleblower claims
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Army to select three vendors to start overhauling IT on its bases
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Army Secretary Mark Esper; Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commander, Combat Capability Development Command
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Modernizing military training in the sea services
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May 22, 2019 |
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The Air Force's new plan to dig out of a $33 billion facility maintenance backlog
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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A narrowing supply base for spare parts challenges the Pentagon
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Why the Pentagon invested research dollars into warp drive, wormholes and invisibility cloaking
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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The Navy's new approaches to identity management, cloud computing
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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The 6 most serious problems uncovered by DoD's first financial audit
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Pentagon's top management challenges; Navy's latest plan for "maritime superiority"
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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JEDI protests: one down, but possibly several more to go
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Two senior officials describe what's next for the Army's tactical network
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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DoD's Joint Task Force Civil Support has a small footprint in a no-fail mission
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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To improve civilian personnel system, DoD says it needs to start with it HR workforce
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Army uses unconventional challenge process to advance data science for electronic warfare
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Pentagon IG highlights more than 1,500 open recommendations, some dating back a decade
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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Army begins moving cyber exercises from sterile "ranges" to a real city
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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The biggest challenges in setting up the new Army Futures Command are still ahead
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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A few of the acquisition experts who helped inform our series on other transaction authorities
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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With an emphasis on speed, Navy's $100 million OTA for information warfare aims for two-way relationship with IT innovators
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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DoD's latest plan to manage its "total force" of servicemembers, civilians and contractors
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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NAVSUP looks for ways to turn data into better business decisions
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Section 809 panel's recommendations not just sitting on the shelf
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Amid mandate to move to milCloud, DISA offers tools to smooth the transition
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May 16, 2018 |
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In DoD, a new approach to testing weapons systems for cybersecurity
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May 14, 2018 |
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A conversation with the personnel chiefs of each of the sea services
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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How the Army plans to compress its IT acquisition process into under a month
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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DoD Inspector General Glenn Fine; Army uses IT to make its headquarters orgs more efficient
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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How DoD is using Code.mil to kickstart open source software for Defense
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, Navy CIO on cloud computing and "Compile-to-Combat in 24 hours"
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Amid wave of Army data center closures, ALTESS is "staging area" for apps not ready to move to cloud
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Air Force's new Installation and Mission Support Center marks full operational capability; IBM brings AI into Army logistics
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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Army sets out on two-year effort to standardize IT in combat formations
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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Cybersecurity: Elevating CYBERCOM, and DoD's latest bug bounty
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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Michael McGhee, Executive Director, Army Office of Energy Initiatives
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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Rear Adm. David Hahn, Chief of Naval Research
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Sailor 2025: 40+ initiatives to help the Navy compete for talent
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May 31, 2017 |
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Hacking the Air Force; Moving the Army to the cloud
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May 03, 2017 |
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Experts assess the legacy of DoD's Better Buying Power initiatives
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Mar 01, 2017 |