Working to integrate veterans’ digital health records, cutting back on the time it takes to process security clearances and deliberating the age-old in-sourcing question are just a few of the issues the Defense Department’s chief managers are facing. To make a dent in that daunting work load, Deputy Chief Management Officer Beth McGrath and Assistant [...]

As his new title suggests, Director of Defense Pricing Shay Assad, formerly head of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, will zero in on the details of Pentagon price tags. In a Federal News Radio interview, Assad said the beginning stages of buying are crucial in closely examining Pentagon buying. “If we’re going to make a [...]

Sonny Bhagowalia, GSA; Photo: data.gov Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia, one of the General Services Administration’s top cloud-computing and technology gurus, will leave the federal government to serve as chief information officer in the state of Hawaii. The CIO position was created earlier this spring along with the newly created Office of Information Management and Technology — [...]

Funding for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — or ISR as it’s known — is thought to be one area of the Defense Department’s budget pie that won’t be shrinking any time soon. The successful intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden helped cement ISR’s reputation in a post-9/11 world. In fact, according [...]

Jack Holt serves as a public affairs planner in the Defense Department’s Defense Media Activity. He previously headed the Defense Department’s “new media” strategies as a senior strategist for emerging media for DMA. The emerging media office was created by the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review — the Pentagon’s four-year planning document — to help guide [...]

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Photo: FCC.gov Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today Ruth Milkman will step down as chief of the agency’s wireless telecommunications bureau to serve as Genachowski’s special counsel for government innovation. Meanwhile, Rick Kaplan, currently Genachowski’s chief counsel and senior legal adviser will take over as head of the telecom [...]

Defense Department acquisition is a huge endeavor, with teams of agency officials and bureaucrats tasked with helping the department get the best deal on purchased goods and services. But a recent American Forces Press Service report draws attention to a small, unknown office harnessing the massive influx of data that could help make for better [...]

Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, the health agency’s point man for electronic health records — a key technology and policy push of the Obama administration. Mostashari joined the agency in 2009 and was elevated to ONC director earlier this spring when former director David Blumenthal announced he [...]

The shakeup at the Army — two high-profile departures last week — could cast doubt on some of the service’s acquisition projects, Defense News reports. Last week, President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Also last [...]

Defense Department acquisition chief Ashton Carter is well-known for his public pronouncements on Pentagon procurement. He delivered one of his most high-profile recent speeches on defense-company mergers before the Wall Street investment firm, the Cowen Group, this winter. But in addition to assuring defense industrial base investors, Carter, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and [...]