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Federal News Network Defense Reporter 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, a...

We spend a lot of time talking and about the federal hiring process and how long it takes. What gets less attention is the onboarding proces...

It would be a bad idea for anyone to predict the exact year in which the Defense Department will relieve itself of its status as the only fe...

This episode features two discussions from the 2024 Sea Air Space conference, starting with a focus on sustainment and logistics. Over the p...

Federal News Network has covered the difficulties federal employees and military members have seen when it comes to getting access to health...

It’s been a decade of major change for the Military Health System in general, and the Defense Health Agency in particular. From its beginnin...

On this edition of On DoD, Jared talks with two leaders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) who are experimenting wi...

On this edition of On DoD: Up until a year ago, the Office of the Secretary of Defense was a bit of an outlier when it came to IT management...

Up until this summer, it wasn’t uncommon for Navy IT users, even at the most senior ranks in the Pentagon, to plan part of their mornings ar...

The Pentagon’s decades-old planning and budgeting process doesn’t have a lot of fans – least of all the people who work within it every day....

The Pentagon has a new plan to improve technology services inside the actual Pentagon – or big parts of it anyway. The first-ever enterprise...

Holly Joers, the program executive officer for Defense Healthcare Management Systems talks with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu and Jason...

The expert commission Congress has tasked with proposing overhauls to DoD's planning and budgeting processes is still a year away from deliv...

The Air Force believes it's made significant progress toward improving the cybersecurity of its weapons systems -- both brand new ones, and...

A new study by George Mason University's Center for Government Contracting chronicles the ways in which the Defense budgeting process has be...

No one particularly likes the way the Defense Department andCongress handle the DoD budgeting process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and veryslow....

We start this week’s show with an exclusive interview withGabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, about several new initiativesthe A...

When the Navy Department set about the process of simplifying its journey to modern software development, officials decided it didn't make m...

Maintenance periods for the Navy’s ships and submarines are taking longer than they should. And there are a lot of reasons for that, but one...

The Defense Department and its components are now into their fifth year of having their financial statements independently scrutinized by in...

Just like innumerable other government agencies, the Air Force runs on paper-based forms that have to be filled out manually, and each one t...

The internet is a forum for harassment that women in the military can't escape. They are being bombarded by toxic comments, vile memes and e...

Jason Weiss was appointed back in January 2021 as DoD’s first-ever Chief Software Officer. Weiss has decided he’s ready to move back to the...

On this episode of On DoD, a bit of a logistics focus. First, we talk with Tim Walton, a fellow at the Hudson Institute, about DoD's somewha...

On this episode, an extended discussion with Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise. Metz explai...

It’s fair to say there are a lot of institutions across government that are still figuring out what the future of work will look like. In th...

On this week's show, we talk to Al Thompson, the CEO of Homesafe Alliance, the joint venture U.S. Transportation Command just picked for a $...

On this edition of On DoD: a deep dive on other transactionagreements. According to the Federal Procurement Data System DoD’s useof OTAs has...

On this edition of On DoD, Jared Serbu talks with two newly-sworn-in DoD technology leaders about their priorities: -- Heidi Shyu, the Under...

The Defense acquisition workforce has faced challenges at other times in its history, but as of 2021, it’s living in interesting times. Cont...

Rear Admiral Pete Stamatopoulos, the commander of Naval Supply Systems Command joins us to talk about Naval Sustainment System-Supply -- NAV...

On this edition of On DoD, Jared Serbu speaks with Maj. Gen. (ret.) Arnold Punaro, who's just released a new book, The Ever-Shrinking Fighti...

On this week's show, Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise talks with Jared Serbu about the shu...

If you’re curious about exactly where DoD is spending its money on other transaction agreements (OTAs), you won’t find satisfying answers in...

On this week's show, John Willison, the top civilian leader at Army Combat Capabilities Development Command joins Jared Serbu to discuss how...

The Defense Department is now onto its fourth year of full-scale financial audits. At first glance, the results from the first three years a...

In this edition of On DoD, the Defense Acquisition University's Mike Coolican joins Jared Serbu to explain the fundamentals of DoD's new Ada...

Under a new agreement with LendLease, a large military housing operator, $1.1 billion in debt-financed housing improvements are expected to...

The Defense Production Act is a special presidential authority we heard about quite a bit toward the beginning of the pandemic as the Trump...

The Navy Department is making some big changes to how it buys and uses commercial cloud computing services. Within the next few months, all...

Like the other military services, the Navy has been working in recent years to improve the readiness of its aviation fleets – especially sin...

A new Pentagon working group is trying to bring more rigor to DoD’s management of its software acquisition workforce. But the department fac...

In August, the Navy announced it was increasing the ceiling value for its Information Warfare Research Project OTA to $500 million. That’s a...

The Pentagon's acquisition system often gets a bad rap -- often deservedly so. But DoD's fledgling Space Development Agency is offering the...

The Army is finding new ways to partner with the communities around its bases. Thanks to a 2015 law that lets the military services sign ser...

On this week's program, Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt, the deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for contracting joins Jared Serbu to discuss...

On this week's program, Jonathan Moak, the Army's top financial management official, and Greg Garcia, its top IT official, join Jared Serbu...

Troy Meyer, DoD's principal deputy inspector general for audit joins Jared Serbu to discuss why open recommendations are headed in the wrong...

Lisa Hershman, DoD's chief management officer, joins Jared Serbu to discuss the role and mission of the CMO. The office only existed since 2...

With billions of dollars in CARES Act funding yet to be spent and several billion more potentially in the appropriations pipeline, it’s far...

On this week's show, Capt. Ben McNeal, the program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks talks with Jared Serbu about how the Navy hopes to...