Interview with David Sutfin, Sandra Weisman, Doug Bourgeois and L.C. Williams Interior agency provides acquisition, financial management
and human resources support to its federal customers.
Consulting partners come in all shapes and sizes, and the National Defense University is proof of that. The university has become an advisor on information technology to international allies.
Experts voice concern that defense agencies aren’t taking the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 seriously enough. Its author, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), says that must change.
From its beginnings as a CIA project, the software powerhouse has always been a key contractor to the Defense Department. Oracle officials explain why the department remains their most important customer.
The Defense Department has yet to meet its 3 percent goal for contracting to service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, and critics charge it could do more. But the department also relies upon its large prime contractors to help with subcontracting opportunities to veterans. Lockheed Martin and Boeing explain how they help.
Defense Consulting and Outsourcing visited the headquarters of Burdeshaw Associated Ltd. (BAL) in Bethesda, MD, to talk with CEO William W. Hartzog, retired general and former commanding general of the U.S. Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), and the firm’s founder William B. Burdeshaw, retired Army brigadier general.
