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The end for NSPS?
DoD authorization bill calls for all converted employees to return to GS system. Legislation also would suspend A-76 for three years.
Tags: Pay & Benefits , contracting , Rep. Ike Skelton , Rep. Jim Langevin , Rep. Susan Davis , Rep. Carol Shea-Porter , Robert Gates , DoD , NSPS , pay for performance , A-76 , Public-private competitions , acquisition reform , pay raise , General Schedule system
Defense acquisition on road to recovery?
DoD addressing long-standing shortcomings, including hiring 20,000 acquisition workers over the next five years. Reforms of the 1990s big reason for procurement problems, deputy secretary says.
Tags: mngt , contracting , William Lynn , Shay Assad , Rep. Michael Conaway , Rep. John McHugh , DoD , acquisition workforce , outsourcing
DoD's cyber command would be next step in evolution
Experts say command would better organize military capabilities
Tags: technology , Robert Gates , DoD , DISA , STRATCOM , NSA , DHS , USAF , Air Force , Henry Raduege , John Gilligan , Deloitte Touché , cybersecurity , Cyber review
Problems with business systems could cost vendors
DoD proposes new rule to withhold payment on contracts if auditors find deficiencies in accounting, estimating, earned value management and other business systems. Recent hearing found 69 of top 100 Pentagon contractors have at least one flawed system.
Tags: contracting , DoD , DCAA , Wartime Contracting Commission , Contractor business systems , Federal Register
Defense on the SPOT defending contractors
DoD, State and USAID have a new understanding about how to use the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) as their system for tracking required information
Tags: contracting , Vic Snyder , Defense , DoD , SPOT , Congressional Spotlight
Measuring the difference between the price and the value
Tags: DoD , acquisition , metrics , mngt ,
DoD must change the way it buys technology
House committee authorizes 10 pilots to try alternative approaches. Defense Science Board recommends ways to improve IT procurement across the military.
Tags: contracting , technology , Tim Harp , Rob Andrews , DoD , Ron Kerber , IT acquisition , acquisition reform , DoD authorization bill
DoD promises to make changes to electronic health records system
Officials tell lawmakers that new strategy will cut time, costs
Tags: technology , DoD , VA , Ward Cascells , Rep. Susan Davis , Tommy Morris , Charles Campbell , Col. Claude Hines , AHLTA , health IT , data sharing
DoD says electronic health record system on track
The Defense Department Tuesday will try to explain to lawmakers just how much progress it has made with its electronic health record system, called AHLTA.
Tags: technology , Michael Weiner , DoD , VA , health IT , AHLTA , data sharing
DoD offers more details of how cyber command would work
Lawmakers place focus on government's relationship with industry to protect computer networks. Military testing system with Defense Industrial Base to share threat information.
Tags: technology , Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander , Bob Lentz , Rep. Diane Watson , Rep. Brian Billbray , Rep. Jim Marshall , Rep. Jeff Miller , DoD , NSA , STRATCOM , DHS , ODNI , OMB , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , cybersecurity
