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Michael McGhee, Executive Director, Army Office of Energy Initiatives Jul 14, 2017

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The Army's Office of Energy Initiatives is the service's central hub for managing the financing and planning for "utility scale" renewable and alternative energy projects. Michael McGhee, OEI's executive director, talks with Jared Serbu about some of the major projects in the pipeline, and the Army's desire to use the power they generate to make its bases energy-independent.

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Rear Adm. David Hahn, Chief of Naval Research Jun 21, 2017

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Rear Adm. David Hahn, the chief of Naval research joins Jared Serbu to discuss the Navy's Concept Challenge: a call to the public for "leap-ahead" technologies.

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Sailor 2025: 40+ initiatives to help the Navy compete for talent May 31, 2017

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Our guest this week is Vice Adm. Robert Burke, the chief of naval personnel. He talks with us about progress so far in a Navy personnel reform initiative called Sailor 2025, including ongoing efforts to modernize the Navy's performance evaluation and information technology systems.

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Hacking the Air Force; Moving the Army to the cloud May 03, 2017

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In this week's edition of On DoD, Peter Kim, the Air Force's chief technology officer, Alex Rice, the CTO at HackerOne, and Reina Staley, the chief of staff of the Defense Digital Service join is to talk about the latest of DoD's bug bounties: Hack the Air Force. Well also talk about changes in how the Army buys cloud computing services as part of a broader effort to shut down expensive, government-owned data centers.

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Experts assess the legacy of DoD's Better Buying Power initiatives Mar 01, 2017

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This week's edition of On DoD is part of a Federal News Radio special report: Defense Acquisition at a Crossroads. We'll hear from several Defense acquisition experts to hear their assessments of what DoD accomplished with its Better Buying Power initiatives.

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