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Army network upgrades set roadmap for smaller, agile force
CIO Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence said better systems at posts, camps and stations will let soldiers train on the same equipment as they use in the field. The move to the cloud, data center consolidation and enterprise email are pushing the Army toward a data-centric approach.
May 31, 2012
Tags: technology , Susan Lawrence , cloud computing , data center consolidation , network modernization , asset management , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
Army, Air Force team up to meet renewable energy goals
Leaders from both services are visiting military bases and renewable energy gatherings together to identify best practices. The Army and Air Force will jointly host a renewable energy industry forum in Washington next month.
Tags: DoD , Air Force , Katherine Hammack , Terry Yonkers , Energy , power purchase agreement , Jared Serbu
Army not spending extra on LEED certifications, official says
House lawmakers are still skeptical about what they see as wasteful spending to build green buildings in the Defense Department. Language in the 2013 defense authorization bill the House passed last week continues a prohibition on using any budget money to certify a DoD building as LEED Gold or LEED Platinum. The highest level allowed would be LEED Silver.
Tags: LEED certification , Katherine Hammack , Air Force , DoD , DoD Report , Federal Drive , Congress
US Army more selective on recruits, re-enlistments
The Army is slashing the size of the active duty personnel from about 570,000 at the height of the Iraq war to 490,000 by 2017. The cutbacks began last year, and as of the end of March the Army was down to less than 558,000 troops.
Tags: DoD , Richard Mustion , Afghanistan and Iraq , David Rodriguez , Ray Odierno
Buying commercial in DoD: 15 years after acquisition reform
During the last Defense drawdown, Congress and the White House pushed the Pentagon to make smarter buying decisions in the hopes that it would save a lot of money. The idea was to have the military buy many products the same way businesses do. A decade and a half later, DoD now spends tens of billions of dollars a year under the commercialized models Congress set up. In a two-part, exclusive report, Federal News Radio examines the debate underway over how well it has worked out.
Tags: commercial products , Bill Clinton , Al Gore , reinventing government , commercial of a type , Shay Assad , Clinger-Cohen Act , William Clinger , Federal Acquisition Streamling Act , Susan Lawrence , Network Integration Evaluation , Navy , CANES , Coast Guard , John Korn , DoD , Aquisitions , Scott Amey , Project on Government Oversight , Defense Service Board , William Perry , Dennis Moran , Harris Corp. , Jared Serbu , Nett Warrior
House OKs $642 billion defense bill
Tags: Barack Obama , DoD , Congress , House , budget , Ray Odierno , House Armed Services Committee
Army launches review of PTSD diagnoses
Army leaders are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder following recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly overturned.
Tags: DoD , PTSD , Lloyd Austin , Joseph Westphal , John McHugh
Odierno: Sequestration threatens 'agile' force
In a Defense Department briefing Wednesday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said service officials are closely examining the issue of women in infantry and armor ranks. Oiderno also said sequestration would thwart the Pentagon's existing plan for a streamlined force.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , DoD , Raymond Odierno , budget , sequestration , women in combat
Panetta: Troop scandals hurt US Afghan mission
Tags: Afghanistan , DoD , Leon Panetta , Marine Corps
Army tries to improve and cut back on service contracting
The Army will soon issue guidance to all of its commands telling them to cut the dollars they spend on service contracts, the service's top contracting official tells Federal News Radio.
Tags: DoD , On DoD , contracting , service contracting , Kim Denver , Jared Serbu
