Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates — despite the administration’s entreaties to stay on for the remainder of President Barack Obama’s first term — will likely step down some time this year. The guessing game of who will take over has already begun, but Loren Thompson, a defense analyst and chief …

“Efficiency” has been the buzzword circulating throughout the Defense Department ever since Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates introduced his cost-savings plan in August designed to repurpose funding within the department. But Congress’ inaction on 2011 spending bills and the resulting continuing resolutions are “miserably inefficient” for the Pentagon, said Undersecretary …

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Kundra at the Whiteboard Hot on the heels of a less-than-favorable Government Accountability Office report on the IT Dashboard, federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who has championed the online tool to …

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Wrap-up of Gen. Alexander’s Cybercom Hearings Cyber news and analysis website (and ExecutiveGov sister site) The New New Internet has an interesting wrap-up of NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command …

In recent House Appropriations Committee testimony, the now-canceled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle was held up as a symbol of Pentagon waste by both members of Congress as well as Navy leaders. Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.) said the EFV, which, after years of development and speculation as to its fate  was finally …

New CIO/G-6 Says Network Modernization is Key Effort The Army announced late last week Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence will take over as Army chief information officer/G-6, filling the Army’s top information technology post, which was vacated in November. As the service’s CIO, Lawrence oversees a $10 billion annual IT budget …

Forget about “doing more with less.” The Defense Department prefers to think of it as “doing more without more.” But, there’s more to the policy than just changing the way defense planners — including procurement chief Ashton Carter — think. In a world where managing the department’s bottom line is …

As Congress mulls passing another extension of a stopgap spending measure to avoid a government shutdown, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said the Defense Department would likely face a number of unknown challenges by operating under a continuing resolution. “Since we’ve never had a year-long continuing resolution for …

Step one for the Defense Department in the wake of the WikiLeaks disclosures, which saw sensitive defense intelligence splashed across newspapers worldwide, was a top-down review of the security chain and an identification of its weakest links. That was the message the department’s new Chief Information Officer Teri Takai took …