On DoD

Oct 27 2024 105 ep. 43 mins 463

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Federal News Network's deputy editor, Jared Serbu, speaks one-on-one and in depth with the people responsible for managing the inner workings of the federal government's largest department, and those who know it best.

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Improving the employee onboarding process across the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Oct 27 2024 35 mins

We spend a lot of time talking and about the federal hiring process and how long it takes. What gets less attention is the onboarding process: all the steps that have to happen once the hiring process is over to get new employees in a position to actually do their jobs. Previous studies have shown the onboarding process is especially troublesome in the Office of the Secretary of De

Where we stand on DoD's long path toward a clean financial audit

Sep 24 2024 44 mins

It would be a bad idea for anyone to predict the exact year in which the Defense Department will relieve itself of its status as the only federal department unable to pass a financial audit. But the oversight body closest to the process seems to think there are glimmers of light at the end of what’s still a very long tunnel. On this episode, a deep dive into where things stand wi

Navy's sustainment system refocuses on real-world readiness

Apr 24 2024 45 mins

This episode features two discussions from the 2024 Sea Air Space conference, starting with a focus on sustainment and logistics. Over the past several years, the Navy has been using a sweeping process improvement effort to wring almost a billion dollars in savings out of its supply chains under a project called Naval Sustainment System-Supply. Now, under a 2.0 version of NSS-Suppl

In Japan, half of military spouse health workers unemployed amid 'shortage' of providers

Mar 27 2024 51 mins

Federal News Network has covered the difficulties federal employees and military members have seen when it comes to getting access to health care in Japan. On this edition of the show, we’re going to talk about that – but not just about that. We’re also going to talk about military spouse unemployment. In the case of Japan, and Okinawa specifically, the two things are very re

Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan

Nov 15 2023 44 mins

It’s been a decade of major change for the Military Health System in general, and the Defense Health Agency in particular. From its beginning as primarily a shared services provider, DHA has grown to become the sole operator of all of the military’s hospitals and clinics, the overseer of the TRICARE health plans and a central player in most other aspects of Defense health care.

Commercial technologies are about to completely redefine IT capabilities in the Navy's afloat community

Oct 25 2023 44 mins

On this edition of On DoD, Jared talks with two leaders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) who are experimenting with technologies like 5G and proliferated low-earth orbit satellites. We'll talk about the massive increase in bandwidth those technologies allow and the improvements they might enable -- both for quality of life issues when sailors are underway

Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices as new OSD CIO marks its one-year anniversary

Oct 19 2023 43 mins

On this edition of On DoD: Up until a year ago, the Office of the Secretary of Defense was a bit of an outlier when it came to IT management and governance. Despite having 19,000 employees, there was no single person in charge of making sure those workers had a decent user experience, and no one in charge of delivering common IT services. That changed last October, when Danielle Me

Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'

Aug 23 2023 41 mins

Up until this summer, it wasn’t uncommon for Navy IT users, even at the most senior ranks in the Pentagon, to plan part of their mornings around the 10 minutes it took for their computers to boot. But as part of a concerted effort to improve user experience, the service has shown it’s possible to cut those maddening daily waits to only about 30 seconds. On this episode of On Do

DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system

Jul 19 2023 48 mins

The Pentagon’s decades-old planning and budgeting process doesn’t have a lot of fans – least of all the people who work within it every day. The American Society of Military Comptrollers has been surveying the DoD financial management workforce for their views about the planning, programming, budgeting and execution process as part of a task force on PPBE reform. Among other

Pentagon has a new plan for 'customer-led' IT service delivery

Jun 07 2023 43 mins

The Pentagon has a new plan to improve technology services inside the actual Pentagon – or big parts of it anyway. The first-ever enterprise IT implementation plan for the Office of the Secretary of Defense promises to take a user-centric approach to improving IT services for the 17 major offices that make up OSD. Danielle Metz, the OSD chief information officer talks about the