Jay L. Johnson will retire from his position as Chairman and CEO of General Dynamics at the end of the year. Phebe N. Novakovic, President and COO since last month, will replace him. CACI’s CEO Paul M. Cofoni is also leaving, to be replaced by Daniel D. Allen.
The GAO says recent overseas posture choices announced by the Obama administration – the Navy’s stationing in Rota (Spain), a reduced Army presence in Europe – remain to be fully costed.
A little more than a year after Ambassador Tim Roemer quit, it’s unclear whether US SecDef Panetta has much to show for his visit to India. He tasked his deputy Ashton Carter to facilitate high tech military exports, but then these are difficult even with countries much closer to the US than India. Times of India | LA Times.
The $400+M fire onboard USS Miami apparently started in a vacuum cleaner, making it the most expensive vacuum cleaner in recorded history.
The US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) posted several updates pertaining to its ongoing NGEN intranet $4.5B RFP. Bidders have until June 11 to ask questions. FBO | SPAWAR.
The Brookings Institute writes [PDF] that agile procurement and development methodologies successfully applied in the past few years should be preserved in the coming drawdown.
The Pentagon’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Program Executive Office for Communications (PEO-COMMS), Program Management Office Mobility will host industry days on June 12-14 in Maryland on best practices from the commercial sector relative to mobile device management and application stores. If you want to submit written questions in advance, you need to do so today by 5pm EST while registration for the even closes tomorrow, 2pm EST. An interesting tidbit: they seem open to employee-owned (BYOD) devices, a rising trend in the private sector that will pose extra challenges in a military environment.
Remember that presolicitations issued by the US federal government/agencies don’t always turn into RFPs, let alone orders. A recent case in point: an inquiry from SOCOM issued last fall for a Transparent Ballistic Protection System (i.e. bulletproof aircraft windows) was “indefinitely suspended” earlier this week.
The Congressional Research Service updated its report [PDF] on the Pentagon’s energy use.
The Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) wants “business acumen” course materials developed by the Defence Materiel Organisation of Australia (DMO) adapted to their own context. Of course these quotes we put around “business acumen” are meant for straight factual quoting rather than to convey irony.