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Air Force rolls out more aggressive energy efficiency plan
After reaching one of its energy efficiency goals three years early, the Air Force has adopted a more ambitious plan. On this week's edition of On DoD, Dr. Kevin Geiss offers an update on where the Air Force is at now.
Tags: Kevin Geiss , Air Force , energy efficiency , green government , Jared Serbu ,
2014 budget exposes longstanding Defense budget issues
On this week's On DoD, Defense budget expert Arnold Punaro discuss some of the long-term problems built into Pentagon spending.
Tags: Jared Serbu , Arnold Punaro
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: Jared Serbu , Mike Coffman
DoD makes slow progress towards clean 2017 audit
Mark Easton, DoD's deputy chief financial officer, says the challenges toward a clean audit are significant but the Pentagon is still optimistic.
Tags: Mark Easton , DoD , CFO , audit , clean audit , Rise of the Money People ,
Army works to keep stateside technology up-to-date
Col. Mark Elliot is the director of the Army's LandWarNet Mission Command directorate, one of the organizations that helped develop capability set management as part of the NIE process. He talked with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu for this week's edition of On DoD.
Tags: Jared Serbu , Mark Elliot , LandWarNet , Network Integration Evaluation
New DoD facilities going green
Mike Johnson, the associate vice chancellor for facilities at University of Arkansas led a National Academy of Sciences study of the new buildings for the Pentagon. He tells Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu in this week's On DoD that the costs and benefits of green buildings are hard to calculate — but that DoD should continue the project in the meantime.
Tags: Jared Serbu , DoD , Mike Johnson , LEED , green energy
New Army Reserve chief prioritizes suicide prevention, calm message on budget
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley took over as Chief of the Army Reserve in June. He tells Federal News Radio there are only two issues that keep him up at night.
Tags: DoD , Army , Army Reserve , budget , sequestration , Suicide , Jeffrey Talley , Jared Serbu
Defense experts debate sequestration's impact
There's a little more than a month to go until sequestration kicks in, taking more than a $1 trillion from agency budgets over 10 years unless Congress finds a way to agree on a Plan B for deficit reduction. In this week's edition of On DoD, Jared Serbu, Federal News Radio's DoD reporter, talks with several defense experts about sequestration and the Defense budget in a second term under President Obama:
Tags: DoD , sequestration , Jared Serbu , Todd Harrison , Tom Donnelly , Russell Rumbaugh
Army modernization plan threatened by sequestration
In this week's edition of On DoD, Lt. Gen. Bill Phillips, the military deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, talked with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu about the Army's concern about automatic budget cuts, and the service's recently-unveiled 30-year modernization strategy.
Tags: Jared Serbu , DoD , Army , Bill Phillips
Lawmakers decry impending DoD cuts
On this week's show, Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu talks about the impending cuts with two members of Congress, Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on readiness, and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), whose suburban Washington district includes a high concentration of DoD civilian employees.
Tags: Jared Serbu , DoD , Rob Wittman , Jim Moran , sequestration
