Government Matters

LTG Bruce Crawford, Army Chief Information Officer/G-6, details the Army’s plan to leverage data and the cloud, and how they’re looking for technology talent to bring it about.

LTG Thomas Horlander, Military Deputy To The Assistant Secretary Of The Army (Financial Mgmt. & Comptroller), discusses finding savings and implementing financial strategies at the Army, and how they’re approaching the DoD audit.

Bruce Jette, assistant secretary for Acquisition, Logistics & Technology at the U.S. Army, discusses the branch’s acquisition efforts, and the pipeline from Army Futures Command to Army Materiel Command.

Frank Kendall, former under secretary of defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, discusses developments in the Army’s search for a Bradley replacement, and provides an international perspective on defense industrial base issues.

Lt. Gen. David Barno, USA (ret.) and Nora Bensahel, contributing editors of War On The Rocks, outline the new Marine Corps strategy, and the impact it could have on the other branches.

LTG Charles Luckey, chief of U.S. Army Reserve, discusses improving readiness and capabilities across the reserve’s 2000 units.

Government Matters examines companies named in the OSP-4 procurement, and what they can bring to the Air Force’s space launches.

Outgoing Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Alan Thomas reflects on his time in the position, and discusses his successes in an exclusive interview with Government Matters.

Michael Rigas, deputy director of the Office of Personnel Management discusses implementing the president’s workforce executive orders, and why it’s important to make firing federal workers easier for managers.

Joseph Klimavicz, deputy assistant attorney general and chief information officer at the Department of Justice discusses the implementation of the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, and his new role as chief data officer at the agency.

Meroe Park, executive vice president of the Partnership for Public Service, and Kathy Conrad, director of digital government at Accenture Federal Services, discuss findings about the state of customer experience in government, and how agencies can improve CX across their enterprise.

Capt. Marc Mancher (USN Ret.), principal at Deloitte Consulting, outlines how RPA is seeing use at federal agencies, and how “digital workers” are becoming a key part of the modern workforce.

Billy Mitchell, editor in chief of FedScoop and Carten Cordell, staff reporter at Washington Business Journal, discuss the General Services Administration’s ‘corrective action’ on the DEOS contract, and the impact it will have.

Francis Rose talks to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform Alexis Ross about advanced manufacturing. Wes Hallman from the National Defense Industrial Administration speaks with Francis Rose about the dangers of extended continuing resolutions. Tim DiNapoli from the Government Accountability Office talks with Francis Rose about counting the non-acquisitions personnel at the Department of Defense.

Surafeal Asgedom, chief modernization officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Melissa Glynn, assistant secretary for enterprise integration at VA, discusses the office’s modernization strategies, and why there’s more to modernization than tech upgrades.

Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, details the GSA schedule consolidation process, and the approach that leadership could take in the next phase.

Todd Harrison, director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, outlines congressional reaction to U.S. Space Command and the coming debate over the new command’s headquarters.

Jose Arrieta, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, details how HHS will use technology to review data and produce insight within their workforce.

Soraya Correa, Chief Procurement Officer at the Department of Homeland Security, outlines how the agency plans to make contract determinations with help from AI, and the status of EAGLE Next Generation.

Ashley Mahan, acting director of FedRAMP at the General Services Administration, discusses efforts to improve their processes, and their future roadmap for automation.

Jeffrey Neal, senior Vice President at ICF, discusses how to improve federal management by creating a new high-level agency out of the existing community.

Gen. Gregory Touhill, president of Cyxtera Federal Group, discusses the tactical challenge of persistence cybersecurity threats, and how to prepare for this kind of attack.

David Berteau, President & CEO of the Professional Services Council, discusses the new regulations surrounding lowest price technically acceptable contracts, and why the changes had to be made.

Michael Child, Deputy Inspector General for Overseas Contingency Operations at DoD, discusses how the office plans to oversee the military’s international operations, and the importance of quarterly reports.

Corbin Evans, director of regulatory policy at the National Defense Industrial Association, discusses ways to improve cybersecurity at military contractors.

Bill Greenwalt, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, discusses how the defense appropriations process will play out, and the potential for a year without an NDAA.

Gen. Carter Ham (USA Ret.), President & CEO of the Association of the United States Army, discusses Army recruitment goals and AUSA’s upcoming annual meeting.

Jim Taylor, managing director at Grant Thornton and former CFO at the Department of Labor, discusses the impact of continuing resolutions on government financial professionals, and what the year ahead could hold.

Sharon Silas, director of health care for the Government Accountability Office, outlines ways that the Veterans Health Administration could improve how they allocated funding, and other takeaways from a recent GAO report.