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Policy shift: DoD is pushing major program management back to the military

December 21, 2017 By Andrew Smith

The Pentagon has steadily been pushing milestone authority for major defense programs to the individual military services, but shifting personnel down from the Office of the Secretary of Defense will take longer.

At a Dec. 7 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, logistics and technology, or AT&L, said her intention is to continue to hand off the day-to-day running of programs to the services, preferring her office serve as a kind of high-level group providing overall guidance.

“AT&L needs to be the strategic body with focus across the board, driving affordability and accountability, reducing timelines, and equipping the Services to execute their programs,” Lord said in prepared testimony, adding that the Defense Department awards an average of 1,800 new contracts a day and 36,000 delivery/task orders a day.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.federaltimes.com/pentagon/2017/12/11/policy-shift-dod-is-pushing-major-program-management-back-to-the-military/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, AT&L, DoD, innovation, Pentagon, procurement reform, restructuring

Air Force layoffs could lead to contract opportunities

January 20, 2016 By Andrew Smith

The Air Force’s secretary and chief of staff have made plain on many recent occasions that a decade of budget pressures have taken an excessive toll on the size of the service’s uniformed force and that some growth is now in order.

But the Air Force’s bosses’ views are exactly the opposite when it comes to the civilian workforce. Even after several recent rounds of voluntary early retirement initiatives and a headquarters restructuring that the service said had trimmed its management layers, the Air Force said last week that it has about 1,000 civilian “overages” across all of its major commands, and needs to use reduction in force (RIF) authorities to eliminate those positions.

The reductions will be carried out between now and April, officials said.

Keep reading this article at: http://federalnewsradio.com/dod-reporters-notebook-jared-serbu/2016/01/air-force-will-use-rif-authority-trim-civilian-workforce/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: Air Force, contracting opportunities, contracting out, reduction in force, restructuring, RIF

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