On DoD Podcast
1) Improving the employee onboarding process across the Office of the Secretary of Defense
We spend a lot of time talking and about the federal hiring process and how long it takes. What gets less attention is the onboarding process: all the steps that have to happen once the hiring process...Show More
2) Where we stand on DoD's long path toward a clean financial audit
It would be a bad idea for anyone to predict the exact year in which the Defense Department will relieve itself of its status as the only federal department unable to pass a financial audit. But the o...Show More
3) Navy's sustainment system refocuses on real-world readiness
This episode features two discussions from the 2024 Sea Air Space conference, starting with a focus on sustainment and logistics. Over the past several years, the Navy has been using a sweeping proces...Show More
4) In Japan, half of military spouse health workers unemployed amid 'shortage' of providers
Federal News Network has covered the difficulties federal employees and military members have seen when it comes to getting access to health care in Japan. On this edition of the show, we’re going to ...Show More
5) Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan
It’s been a decade of major change for the Military Health System in general, and the Defense Health Agency in particular. From its beginning as primarily a shared services provider, DHA has grown to ...Show More
Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland on the Defense Health Agency's new strategic plan
44:20 | Nov 15th, 2023
6) Commercial technologies are about to completely redefine IT capabilities in the Navy's afloat community
On this edition of On DoD, Jared talks with two leaders from the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) who are experimenting with technologies like 5G and proliferated low-earth orbit sat...Show More
7) Secret-level version of Microsoft 365 rolls out to top Pentagon offices as new OSD CIO marks its one-year anniversary
On this edition of On DoD: Up until a year ago, the Office of the Secretary of Defense was a bit of an outlier when it came to IT management and governance. Despite having 19,000 employees, there was ...Show More
8) Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'
Up until this summer, it wasn’t uncommon for Navy IT users, even at the most senior ranks in the Pentagon, to plan part of their mornings around the 10 minutes it took for their computers to boot. But...Show More
Navy says it's achieved big UX improvements amid DoD effort to 'fix our computers'
41:00 | Aug 24th, 2023
9) DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system
The Pentagon’s decades-old planning and budgeting process doesn’t have a lot of fans – least of all the people who work within it every day. The American Society of Military Comptrollers has been sur...Show More
DoD financial management workforce gives low marks to decades-old PPBE system
48:18 | Jul 20th, 2023
10) Pentagon has a new plan for 'customer-led' IT service delivery
The Pentagon has a new plan to improve technology services inside the actual Pentagon – or big parts of it anyway. The first-ever enterprise IT implementation plan for the Office of the Secretary of D...Show More