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Updated: DoD to quadruple TRICARE fees for higher-earning retirees
The personnel proposals included in the 2013 Defense Department budget include hikes to healthcare fees, cutbacks in both uniformed and civilian personnel. DoD also plans to save money through continued efficiencies and plans to increase the acquisition workforce.
Tags: DoD , DoD budget , workforce , pay and benefits , retirement , TRICARE , acquisition workforce , budget , Jared Serbu , Robert Hale , BRAC , IT efficiencies ,
McFarland nominated for DoD acquisition post
The president has nominated Katrina McFarland to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.
Tags: DoD , Katrina McFarland
Special Ops chief seeks greater authority
The chief of the military's Special Operations wants more authority and freedom to move his forces around the world.
Tags: DoD , William McRaven
DoD converts 17K civilian jobs under insourcing initiative
The finds of those 17,000 jobs, the Army brought the most contractor positions back to federal employees, 42 percent.
Tags: DoD , Army , GAO , Federal Drive
DoD, EPA sign sustainable energy agreement
A memorandum of understanding the two agencies signed yesterday will commit them to share resources and brainpower to make sure DoD bases have the long-term energy, land, air and water resources they need.
Tags: DoD , Federal Drive
Top senators question Pentagon move on fighter jet
The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee suggested on Monday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rushed a decision to develop the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet despite new technical problems with the troubled program.
Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , F-35 , Lockheed Martin , acquisition , contracting , John McCain , Carl Levin
Northrop Grumman wins $637M Navy IT contract
Navy expects to implement the first network on a fleet destroyer in late 2012.
Tags: Northrop Grumman , Navy , contracting , technology , Federal Drive
Committee chair promises to spike new BRAC requests
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, says he'll kill any request coming from the Pentagon for a new round of base closures.
Tags: Buck McKeon , Martin Dempsey , House Armed Services Committee , DoD , Federal Drive , House , Congress , BRAC
Board approves next phase of defense accounting system
The Defense Acquisition Board approved the next phase of development for the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System or DEAMS.
Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , Federal Drive
Role of DoD assistant secretary for networks changes
The position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integeration no longer has acquisition-specific functions or resources for command, control, communications, non-intelligence space matters and major automated information systems.
