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On DoD

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 ... Read more

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Building a 'Digital Air Force'

Building a 'Digital Air Force'

On this week's show, an extended discussion with Matthew Donovan, the undersecretary of the Air Force, and Gen. Stephen ... Read more

11 Sep 2019

44mins

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How the Army plans to compress its IT acquisition process into under a month

How the Army plans to compress its IT acquisition process into under a month

Some members of Congress and some corners of the Defense Department have become enamored of the idea of using other tran... Read more

4 Apr 2018

43mins

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How the Army will 'ruthlessly' enforce its forthcoming data strategy

How the Army will 'ruthlessly' enforce its forthcoming data strategy

On this edition of On DoD, Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford, the Army's Chief Information Officer/G6 talks with Jared Serbu about... Read more

26 Sep 2019

41mins

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Section 809 panel's recommendations not just sitting on the shelf

Section 809 panel's recommendations not just sitting on the shelf

The Section 809 Panel -- the commission Congress chartered to study reforms to the federal acquisition system -- is alre... Read more

12 Jun 2018

44mins

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The Navy's new approaches to identity management, cloud computing

The Navy's new approaches to identity management, cloud computing

On this week's program, two senior Navy IT officials join Jared Serbu to talk about the service's latest plans for ident... Read more

20 Feb 2019

41mins

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Army begins moving cyber exercises from sterile "ranges" to a real city

Army begins moving cyber exercises from sterile "ranges" to a real city

The Army already owns what amounts to fully-functional city it uses that it uses for traditional military training event... Read more

15 Aug 2018

43mins

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A few of the acquisition experts who helped inform our series on other transaction authorities

A few of the acquisition experts who helped inform our series on other transaction authorities

On this week’s edition of On DoD, we go a bit deeper into Federal News Radio’s series, Danger at High Speed: OTAs in Act... Read more

25 Jul 2018

44mins

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Amid mandate to move to milCloud, DISA offers tools to smooth the transition

Amid mandate to move to milCloud, DISA offers tools to smooth the transition

DISA's milCloud 2.0 is about to get a wave of new customers, thanks to a Pentagon mandate to move "fourth estate" applic... Read more

16 May 2018

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The 6 most serious problems uncovered by DoD's first financial audit

The 6 most serious problems uncovered by DoD's first financial audit

The documentation accompanying DoD's first-ever financial audit is tough for non-auditors to decipher. But as part of it... Read more

30 Jan 2019

40mins

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DoD's latest plan to manage its "total force" of servicemembers, civilians and contractors

DoD's latest plan to manage its "total force" of servicemembers, civilians and contractors

Last year, the White House called on all federal agencies to draw up plans to reduce the government's civilian workforce... Read more

27 Jun 2018

40mins

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A narrowing supply base for spare parts challenges the Pentagon

A narrowing supply base for spare parts challenges the Pentagon

It’s not easy for DoD contracting officers to determine whether they’re getting fair and reasonable prices, particularly... Read more

14 Mar 2019

42mins

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The Air Force's new plan to dig out of a $33 billion facility maintenance backlog

The Air Force's new plan to dig out of a $33 billion facility maintenance backlog

Like the other military services, the Air Force has knowingly underfunded its facility maintenance accounts in recent ye... Read more

4 Apr 2019

47mins

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Pentagon IG highlights more than 1,500 open recommendations, some dating back a decade

Pentagon IG highlights more than 1,500 open recommendations, some dating back a decade

For the second year in a row, the Defense department’s inspector general has just released a “compendium” of open recomm... Read more

22 Aug 2018

31mins

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Pentagon's top management challenges; Navy's latest plan for "maritime superiority"

Pentagon's top management challenges; Navy's latest plan for "maritime superiority"

We have two guests on this week's show: Brett Mansfield, senior advisor to the Principal Deputy DoD Inspector General ta... Read more

2 Jan 2019

43mins

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Why the Pentagon invested research dollars into warp drive, wormholes and invisibility cloaking

Why the Pentagon invested research dollars into warp drive, wormholes and invisibility cloaking

We’re turning this week’s show over to Federal News Network’s Jason Miller, who recently talked to several experts about... Read more

7 Mar 2019

44mins

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In DoD, a new approach to testing weapons systems for cybersecurity

In DoD, a new approach to testing weapons systems for cybersecurity

In this week's edition of On DoD, Robert Behler, the Defense Department's new Director of Operational Test and Evaluatio... Read more

14 May 2018

43mins

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Army Secretary Mark Esper; Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commander, Combat Capability Development Command

Army Secretary Mark Esper; Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commander, Combat Capability Development Command

The Army is front and center in this episode. We begin with an exclusive interview with Mark Esper, the Army secretary. ... Read more

12 Jun 2019

45mins

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