January 23, 2009 • 9:03 pm
None of the branches of the Military made the list specifically even though Navy and Coast Guard have both caught the attention of GAO for their flawed acquisition programs. Both the Department of Defense and Homeland Security made the list.
DOD Approach to Business Transformation
• Business Systems Modernization
• Personnel Security Clearance Program
• Support Infrastructure Management
• Financial Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Weapon Systems Acquisition
Implementing and Transforming the Department of Homeland Security
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The Secretary took the opportunity to conduct some Q&A with the DHS Beat reporters, representing approximately a dozen major news outlets. It is clear from watching her and listening to her that we share a common philosophy including a bias for action, transparency, and unity of effort within the Department. Said Allen
If you say it enough – “transparency” – you’ll believe it! Admiral Thad Allen’s Office of Governmental and Public Affairs under his leadership has established a policy of communicating with “friendly” Social Media that is in stark contrast with Allen’s own social media policy( ALCOAST 458/08) .
We’ll publish an e-mail from Allen’s staff this weekend that illustrates this point.
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On her first official day as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano issued five Action Directives, all centered on one of the primary missions of DHS: Protection. In the coming days, Secretary Napolitano will issue other action directives focused on other missions critical to the department: Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Immigration.
The action directives Secretary Napolitano issued today on protection instruct specific offices and agencies to gather information, review existing strategies and programs, and to provide oral and written reports back to her by a time certain. The areas in which today’s action directives were issued are: critical infrastructure protection; risk analysis; state and local intelligence sharing; transportation security; and state, local and tribal integration.
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From DoD Buzz – Senate To New DoD Team: Fix Acquisition
“For those who watch the money, there was one persistent theme through the lightly-attended confirmation hearing for the new Pentagon leadership team: the money pool will shrink and the military must improve how well it develops and buys weapons.
“These [acquisition] problems have reached crisis proportions,” noted the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). He also said at the beginning of the hearing that the country “can’t afford these kinds of inefficiencies.”
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