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Deficit plans recognize DoD financial management failings

The Center for Defense Information's Winslow Wheeler compares how the deficit reduction plans handle defense spending and financial management reform.

Tags: Winslow Wheeler , In Depth , Francis Rose , budget , deficit reduction , Congress , Jolie Lee

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Federal workgroup forms to take a bite out of bedbugs

Federal offices face a public health scourge spreading across the nation: bedbugs. Five agencies have joined forces to form the Federal Bed Bug Workgroup, which works to educate on and control the spread of bed bugs. The EPA's director of Office of Pesticide Programs tells us about findings of the first National Bed Bug Summit.

Tags: Federal Drive , management , EPA , Bed Bugs , CDC , USDA , HHS , Lois Rossi , bedbugs , Vyomika Jairam

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Navy chaplain discusses role in the military

Host Derrick T. Dortch talks to Navy Captain Mark Steiner, Chaplain of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, about his work providing for the spiritual welfare of men and women in the military.
November 26, 2010 (Encore presentation December 3, 2010)

Tags: Mark Steiner , Navy , chaplain , Fed Access , Derrick Dortch , pay and benefits

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DoD changing how it develops business systems

Under secretary Carter issued a new memo requiring the use of a new methodology for all business applications worth more than $1 million. DoD has more than 156 systems that meet that requirement.

Tags: management , Ashton Carter , Business Capability Lifecycle , program management , Jason Miller

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Bolivia Flexes at U.S.

A very curt message for Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday. Bolivian President Evo Morales said Latin American nations will pick their own friends and business partners, including Iran, regardless of U.S. opinion. The remarks came during a welcome ceremony for delegates at a regional defense conference Morales never mentioned Gates. But observers say most of the speech, and all of the applause lines, obviously aimed at Gates.

Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green , Robert Gates , Evo Morales , Defense

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Navy names Halvorsen as new CIO

The Navy has a new chief information officer. Terry Halvorsen received the promotion today from Secretary Ray Mabus.

Tags: technology , management , Terry Halvorsen , Rob Carey , Ray Mabus , Navy , Jason Miller

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Guamanians fight DoD's firing range plan

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues to turn DoD's plans for a firing range on Guam over. The trust's Brian Turner explains what's at stake.

Tags: Federal Drive , National Trust for Historic Preservation , Brian Turner , Guam , Defense , security

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Navy psychiatrist to head traumatic brain injury center

The Department of Defense announced today the appointment of Navy Capt. Paul S. Hammer, as the director of the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) in Arlington, Va.

Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Defense , traumatic brain injury , Navy , Paul Hammer

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GAO assesses DoD acquisitions

Tags: acquisitions , Cristina Chaplain , GAO , Dorobek Insider

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Defense authorization bill back on Senate docket

The Defense authorization bill has been on the Senate calendar, and off the Senate calendar. Now it's on again. The Senate majority leader is now promising to bring a 2011 defense authorization bill to the floor for a vote.

Tags: DoD Report , defense spending , defense spending bill , Senate Armed Services Committee , Harry Reid , Joe Lieberman , Senate , Dorobek Insider

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