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House Armed Services sets up acquisition panel
The House Armed Services Committee today formed a panel to figure out how best to reform the Defense Department's acquisition programs and processes.
Tags: contracting , Ike Skelton , Jim McHugh , Jim Andrews , Mike Conaway , Clair McCaskill , Carl Levin , John McCain , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , DoD , acquisition reform
Panetta wants full accounting of money in, money out by 2014
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants the department to have at least part of its books ready for audit well in advance of the Congressionally-mandated 2017 deadline. The edict could prove challenging for some components of DoD.
Tags: DoD , audit readiness , Congress , budget , Leon Panetta , Martin Dempsey , pay and benefits , military pensions , supercommittee , Jared Serbu ,
Is DoD workforce ready for financial management improvements?
In this week's "Pentagon Solutions," host Francis Rose brings highlights from the House Armed Services Committee Panel on Defense Financial Management and Auditability Reform hearing, "Is the Financial Management Workforce Positioned to Achieve DOD's Financial Improvement Goals?"
Tags: DoD , Pentagon Solutions
Acquisition Panel calls for major changes at the Pentagon
There's another voice in the effort to reform the defense acquisition process. After mounting evidence the defense acquisition system was not nimble enough to respond to changing needs, not tough enough in protecting taxpayer money, and not disciplined enough in weapons systems acquisition, the House Armed Services Committee created the Defense Acquisition Reform Panel to find solutions to these problems.
Tags: technology , Mike Conaway , Defense Acquisition Reform Panel , PARCA , RFP
Defense Budget's Next Stop
Tags: DoD , Pentagon , budget , Ike Skelton ,
State of the Defense Acquisition Workforce
Tags: defense acquisition , Shay Assad
Future of Pentagon Health IT
Tags: Department of Defense , health IT ,
House Armed Services releases new oversight plan
Defense News reports on changes to major DoD policy issues coming from the new oversight plan.
Tags: DoD Report , Defense News , oversight , Dorobek Insider , Howard McKeon , Roscoe Bartlett
GOP installs new House Armed Services subcommittee heads
DoD Buzz reports on the party changeover within the Armed Services Committee.
Tags: DoD Report , DoD Buzz , Bob DeGrasse , Mike Turner , Rob Wittman , Mike Conaway , Dorobek Insider
Panel will try to fix DoD financial management
The House Armed Services Committee is following the success of its acquisition reform panel with a similar approach to Pentagon finances. Reps. Mike Conaway and Rob Andrews will, once again, lead the effort.
Tags: financial management , Rob Andrews , Mike Conaway , clean audit , Jason Miller
