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Beef jerky, reality shows, beer: Coburn tells DoD to cut it all out
A new report, called the Department of Everything, says DoD spending over the next 10 years will total almost $68 billion on non- military goods and services. Some recent examples include a smartphone app to help military members manage their caffeine intake and the sponsorship of a workshop by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called the 100 Year Starship project, which included a session called, "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?"
Tags: management , Congress , Tom Coburn , DoD , budget , waste, fraud and abuse , Nora Bensahel , Elizabeth Robbins , Jason Miller
Thousands of service members transition to private sector jobs
Some 250,000 service members leave the military each year and all must attend counseling on finances and other issues whether they served six years or 26 years, whether they saw the battlefield or not.
Tags: DoD , Labor Department , Veterans Affairs , Transition Assistance Program ,
Lessons from States's QDDR
Brian Burton, a Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, explains what State did right and where it could improve its QDDR.
Tags: Brian Burton , Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development , State ,
FOSE Conference to outline agencies' tech future
Karen Evans is the Director of the US Cyber Challenge. And the former E-gov administration.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , Karen Evans , best practices , In Depth , FOSE Conference
Analysis: CIA-DoD leadership shuffle
In Depth host Francis Rose gets analysis of the changes from Travis Sharp, research associate at the Center for a New American Security, and Danielle Pletka, vice president on Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Tags: Danielle Pletka , American Enterprise Institute , Travis Sharp , DoD , In Depth , David Petraeus , Leon Panetta
