DOD issues guidance to advance civilian workforce overhaul

DOD issues guidance to advance civilian workforce overhaul

DOD civilian employee roles that do not facilitate "lethality" should be assessed for restructuring or elimination, the memo states.

Pentagon Personnel Efficiency Dealine – The Presidential Prayer Team

Today is the deadline for Pentagon leaders, combatant commanders, and defense agency and Defense Department field activity directors to submit plans to reduce the civilian workforce to the Pentagon personnel undersecretary.

DOD Plans Quicker Cybersecurity Contractor Standards

Defense IT contractors who can demonstrate an assured supply chain and secure coding practices will soon be able to get fast track approval to have their products operate on DOD networks, radically shortening a process that often takes months or years at present, Pentagon Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer said April 10.  The Defense Department will tell contractors, “if you want the fast path to get past these long [approval] cycles, if you …

DOD Issues Guidance To Advance Civilian Workforce Overhaul

The Defense Department issued guidance this week aimed at moving forward with its efforts to restructure its civilian workforce, according to a memo from Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg. The April 7 memo aligns with the March 28 Secretary of Defense memo that called for an analysis of the department in hopes of reducing duplicative jobs, automating others and weeding out bureaucracy. “To successfully deter America’s adversaries and …

DoD Sets Policies on Consolidating and Eliminating Offices and Civilian Jobs

DoD has issued guidance on carrying out the civilian employment-related aspects a late-March directive on that calls for components to ...More The article DoD Sets Policies on Consolidating and Eliminating Offices and Civilian Jobs was first published on FEDweek.