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 that the Navy’s only recently discovered is that most of…
June 22, 2022
The Defense Department and its components are now into their fifth year of having their financial statements independently scrutinized by independent auditors. In the first few years, there were some very promising signs that DoD…
June 16, 2022
Just like innumerable other government agencies, the Air Force runs on paper-based forms that have to be filled out manually, and each one takes time. How much? That was a difficult question to answer until…
May 18, 2022
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 even stalking. Yet, the Pentagon has few answers for a problem…
April 26, 2022
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 private sector. In this episode, he tells Jared Serbu about his…
April 6, 2022
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 somewhat surprising decision to close down its Red Hill…
March 10, 2022
On this episode, an extended discussion with Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise. Metz explains how Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle will actually compete for work under the up to…
January 19, 2022
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 this episode, we revisit one of the Army organizations…
December 30, 2021
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 $6.2 billion contract to overhaul the military’s household goods moving system.…
November 17, 2021
On this edition of On DoD: a deep dive on other transactionagreements. According to the Federal Procurement Data System DoD’s useof OTAs has skyrocketed from 342 agreements worth $1.4 billion in 2016 to 3,200agreements worth…
November 3, 2021
On this edition of On DoD, Jared Serbu talks with two newly-sworn-in DoD technology leaders about their priorities: — Heidi Shyu, the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering — Jay Bonci, the Air Force…
October 20, 2021
The Defense acquisition workforce has faced challenges at other times in its history, but as of 2021, it’s living in interesting times. Contracting officers, program managers and other acquisition professionals are navigating their way through…
September 30, 2021
Rear Admiral Pete Stamatopoulos, the commander of Naval Supply Systems Command joins us to talk about Naval Sustainment System-Supply — NAVSUP’s effort to provide Navy leadership with a holistic and businesslike approach to the Navy’s…
August 15, 2021
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 Fighting Force. Punaro, a former staff director of the Senate Armed Services…
July 31, 2021
