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October 8, 2009
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Army on the Move;
Today with Roger Baker
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| DC CTO Chris Willey will headline INPUT's Oct 13 breakfast. Learn what technology DC needs and how you can help supply it. More info. |
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| Dean Popps, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology, tells us the Army is looking to responsibly retrograde more than a million pieces of equipment in Afghanistan and Iraq as DoD aims to reduce its troop structure by the end of next August. |
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Secretary Popps, left, with MG James Myles, right, Commanding General, Aviation and Missile Command, conduct rotary aircraft movement in Kuwait during a recent trip. Secretary Popps says the Army has seen the evolution of war over the past eight years; the days of force-on-force combat has been replaced by intelligence, surveillance, UAVs and an increase in nighttime operations—and the equipment has followed. He tells us “We’ve been at war for the past eight years and our duty is to make sure our soldiers have everything they need to be successful. Everything else comes a distant third.”
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Secretary Popps and Gen Ann E. Dunwoody, Commanding General Army Materiel Command, receive a briefing at the MRAP reset facility in Baghdad. Secretary Popps was appointed by President Bush seven years ago. His office oversees Acquisition policy for the Army and is the rough equivalent of a 4-star general. Secretary Popps is a pioneer in the teleport concept, he founded Dallas Fort Worth Teleport and was COO at Communications Technology Management.
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| Veterans Admin Update |
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VA Asst. Sec. for IT Roger Baker said this morning that his agency and DoD have the country's best interoperability between two healthcare systems. “A VA employee can hit one button and get any information that is in a soldier’s DoD medical file and have the two merged instantaneously.” Roger also has a social network for VA’s 7K employees and writes a blog that employees comment on.
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Is this the U2 concert at FedEx Field? No, it’s the 600 who came to see Roger share his priorities: in descending order (act accordingly), customer service, information security, operational metrics, partners, communications, innovation, and financial management For the record, we’ve never heard more pens click at once. Also, with Roger, it's about honesty: “If you’re working with me and see problems coming, let me know even if you think it will hurt your business; we want real partners and it will help you in the long run.”
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INPUT EVP Kevin Plexico says that the VA’s annual budget is growing 10% each year as the country keeps up with the increasing number of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. He says the agency got $1.5 billion in stimulus, mostly for building upgrades, but IT and infrastructure improvements will be part of that.
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| GovCon Wine Tasting |
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We zipped to Tysons on Tuesday for power networking of 120 government contracting honchos at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto. It was the second such meeting of the ad hoc group and is assembled by invites from sponsors, one from each industry (advertising, insurance, accounting, etc....) One host, Sage Communications' Larry Rosenfeld, right, told us wine tasting was on the agenda, but no speakers or sales pitches. He's joined by NCI's Patrick Shannon, Cordia's Dana Fisher, and CSC's Frank Richardson.
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| We snapped USI Insurance' John Micale, NCI's Bill Parker, and Windsor Group's Greg Van Beuren practicing for the next GQ cover. |
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| Cordia Partners' Mitch Weintraub, Focus Technologies' Shannon Jameson, Alion's Tim Cook, and Focus's Jason Sloan. The group is also raising money for military related charities and plans to meet again in February. |
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| Send story ideas to david@bisnow.com |
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