John Michael Loh, a former U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff and commander of Air Combat Command, has said he believes the military service should use “rollback” strategies along with stealth aircraft platforms and stealth weapons systems to carry out air campaigns.

The retired USAF general wrote in a Defense News opinion piece published Thursday that such strategy helped air forces in past operations, such as Desert Storm, that involved efforts against integrated air defense systems.

He noted that current guiding principle for the air campaign planning process calls for troops to ensure continuous operations in a contested environment.

“Air Force has visionary leaders whose challenge is to learn from past air campaigns, exploit the limitations of modern IADS, understand the mismatch between paper attrition and the realities of combat, invest in the right set of affordable forces and recognize the value of rapid rollback to create permanently uncontested airspace,” Loh added.

The Defense Department, NASA and the General Services Administration seek comments on a proposal to establish a standard method for collecting voluntary feedback from government contractors regarding contracts and solicitations.

In Federal Register notice posted July 26, all three agencies noted that voluntary comments on industry standards, alternative regulatory approaches and legal definitions for other areas of deals, among other things, would provide more substance in modifying the contracting process.

DoD, GSA and NASA also proposed a language under federal acquisition rules to encourage contracting officers to collect vendor feedback on the pre-award acquisition process and debriefings.

Another proposal invites government acquisition officials to open their contracting performance for assessment.

The comment period is open until Sept. 21.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy originally established a standard survey in 2015 for vendor feedback on pre-award and debriefing processes for solicitations.

The initial guidance encouraged interested offerors to provide insights on issuing solicitations that cover various requirements.

The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service has invited chief financial officers at federal agencies to translate into action any of the 10 initiatives outlined in a publication describing the Bureau’s vision for financial management.

BFS Commissioner Kim McCoy wrote in her 2018 fiscal service letter to CFOs that she was sharing the publication “to promote teamwork and more clearly communicate Fiscal Service’s future direction for central financial services.”

The initiatives encompass four overarching objectives, namely: optimizing disbursements, improving collections, enhancing reporting and expanding administrative services.

Examples of these initiatives include promoting the use of G-Invoicing to automate inter-agency transactions, as well as the Invoice Processing Platform to allow vendors to submit electronic invoices using a single system — efforts that would allow CFOs to “have more time to focus on performance management and achieve that overall vision that the American citizen has in how they should receive services,” McCoy told Federal News Radio in an interview published Thursday.

In the fiscal service letter, McCoy went on to say that her office will contact CFOs and their staff in the upcoming year “to discuss how we can work together to achieve these goals” and “shape the future of federal financial management.”