Unstaffed DoD * Arnold Punaro, a retired USMC Maj. General and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)’s new chairman, made a list of vacant senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and it’s a pretty long one. Either these roles...
Flip sides of the COIN * Just hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a deal had been reached, Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed the signing of a security agreement with the US until after next April’s elections. American officials were...
Performance-Based Logistics has become a way of life in Britain’s military, and has also been adopted for some programs in the USA, Canada, France, and other countries. Now, a $5.8 billion contract will add the UAE to that list, and support every aircraft and...
Contractors Face New Regulatory Obligations * Effective since last Monday, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) amendment applies to all new contracts that use or generate technical information and spells out new responsibilies for contractors...
Pentagon: Creative Accounting; Commodity Buying; Program Crunch; Reform Pilgrimage * DoD is infamous for being unable to pass an audit, a situation they’re supposed to remedy by 2017, though whether they will meet that deadline is doubtful. So how do they...
