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DoD grants network access to Android, BlackBerry 10 devices
The Pentagon's mobile plan includes device approvals that will involve some up-front costs. The expectation is those costs will be quickly offset by eliminating the inefficiency of the slow, stovepiped and outdated approaches that have characterized DoD mobility up until now.
Tags: DoD , mobile computing , technology , Android , BlackBerry , Damien Pickart , Robert Wheeler , cybersecurity ,
Budget turmoil creates hurdles for DoD auditability
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Tex.) is a certified public accountant who chaired a year-long series of hearings on DoD audit readiness for the House Armed Services Committee. He spoke with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu for this week's On DoD.
Tags: On DoD , Mike Coffman
Tightening budgets force DARPA to alter course for R&D
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative technologies ever created — including the Internet. But as budgets tighten, the agency's director says she's trying to figure out how to deal with an increasingly complex threat environment as less money flows into the research and development pipeline.
Tags: DoD , DARPA , research and development , Arati Prabhakar , technology , cybersecurity , GPS , sequestration
Army could lose 100,000 soldiers due to sequestration
Army leaders say the belated passage of a 2013 budget helped this year's fiscal picture, but the service still is more than $15 billion short of funds. If sequestration continues, the service will shrink by at least 100,000 soldiers.
Tags: DoD , Army , Congress , sequestration , workforce , civilian workforce , John McHugh , Raymond Odierno , Senate Armed Service Committee , furloughs
DoD acquisition managers told to think for themselves
The Pentagon's top acquisition official released guidance this week to implement the Defense Department's latest iteration of the Better Buying Power program. The plan tells acquisition managers their first priority should be to use their own expertise in making decisions.
Tags: DoD , acquisition , industry , Better Buying Power initiative , Frank Kendall ,
Internal watchdog blasts DoD's health IT efforts
A memo obtained by Federal News Radio points to a split in thinking inside the Pentagon's efforts to achieve interoperability with VA's electronic health record system. An assessment by the Pentagon's office of operational test and evaluation, an internal acquisition watchdog, finds DoD's project to build a new electronic health record is "likely to be detrimental to the President's goals" for interoperable health IT.
Tags: DoD , VA , health IT , Integrated health records system , iEHR , Michael Gilmore , technology , information sharing , exclusive
Military groups fight to stop DoD budget proposal
Advocacy organizations are criticizing the Pentagon's proposed fee increase for TRICARE as unfair and discriminatory.
Tags: DoD , Congress , pay and benefits , Military Officers Association of America , Steven Strobridge , Lindsay Graham , Kathleen Moakler , National Military Family Association ,
Sequestration already taking toll on DoD's research and development
Defense agencies and services are pulling back hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants and contracts. Impending furloughs will further impair DoD's ability to get money out the door.
Tags: DoD , Congress , science and technology , sequestration , DARPA , Matthew Klunder , Alan Shaffer , Arati Prabhakar , House Armed Services Committee , budget , research and development
Hagel orders DoD to 'restructure' path toward integrated health record
The Pentagon delays its RFP for a new electronic health record system. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says a revised approach is coming soon.
Tags: VA , Integrated Electronic Health Record , Chuck Hagel , House Appropriations Committee , industry , contracting , technology , DoD , health IT
DoD makes auditability a priority, but will likely miss 2014 deadline
The Defense Department's attitude toward the importance of auditability has undergone a marked change, but experts believe compliance with its next legal deadline will be a stretch.
Tags: Rise of the Money People , DoD , audit readiness , financial management , Congress , Mike Conaway , DoD IG , Dan Blair , Tracy Porter , Grant Thornton ,
