Improving the employee onboarding process across the Office of the Secretary of Defense
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...
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20 of 105 episodesWhere we stand on DoD's long path toward a clean financial audit
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...
Navy's sustainment system refocuses on real-world readiness
This episode features two discussions from the 2024 Sea Air Space conference, starting with a focus on sustainment and logistics. Over the p...
In Japan, half of military spouse health workers unemployed amid 'shortage' of providers
Federal News Network has covered the difficulties federal employees and military members have seen when it comes to getting access to health...
Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan
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...
Commercial technologies are about to completely redefine IT capabilities in the Navy's afloat community
On this edition of On DoD, Jared talks with two leaders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) who are experimenting wi...
Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices as new OSD CIO marks its one-year anniversary
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...
Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'
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...
DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system
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....
Pentagon has a new plan for 'customer-led' IT service delivery
The Pentagon has a new plan to improve technology services inside the actual Pentagon – or big parts of it anyway. The first-ever enterprise...
An update on DoD's deployment of MHS Genesis
Holly Joers, the program executive officer for Defense Healthcare Management Systems talks with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu and Jason...
A progress report from the commission tasked with overhauling DoD's 60-year-old budgeting process
The expert commission Congress has tasked with proposing overhauls to DoD's planning and budgeting processes is still a year away from deliv...
Air Force finds ways to bake cybersecurity into weapons systems, and bolt it on where necessary
The Air Force believes it's made significant progress toward improving the cybersecurity of its weapons systems -- both brand new ones, and...
How DoD's own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the 'valley of death'
A new study by George Mason University's Center for Government Contracting chronicles the ways in which the Defense budgeting process has be...
Getting to work on fixes to the Pentagon's broken budgeting system
No one particularly likes the way the Defense Department andCongress handle the DoD budgeting process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and veryslow....
New initiatives to bring small businesses into the Army technology ecosystem, and a big acceleration of BYOD
We start this week’s show with an exclusive interview withGabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, about several new initiativesthe A...
To institutionalize DevSecOps, Navy's Black Pearl aims to 'commoditize the boring stuff'
When the Navy Department set about the process of simplifying its journey to modern software development, officials decided it didn't make m...
One reason Navy ship maintenance is taking too long: workers stuck waiting for supplies
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...
Five years into DoD financial audits, progress has stalled
The Defense Department and its components are now into their fifth year of having their financial statements independently scrutinized by in...
Va. National Guard's 'Smart Weapon' aims to stop wasting airmen's time on paperwork
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...