The Air Staff’s director of information services and integration, Maj. Gen. William Lord, told Government Computer News that the Air Force information technology personnel he spoke with during two town hall meetings “appreciated the candor” of being told they would be among the first to face personnel cuts. Lord arranged the town hall sessions during the recent IT conference in Alabama where the news broke about IT personnel being very vulnerable as USAF cuts some 40,000 personnel over the next few years, principally because much of their efforts have made it possible for USAF to streamline its business functions. Lord also told GCN that IT has shifted its focus from refining business practices to “solving warfighting integration issues.” One would think there is still a lot of work to do for IT wienies.
Leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are tentatively scheduling a “Big Four” meeting for Oct. 26 to begin hashing out an agreement on the 2021 defense policy bill, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told reporters. The Big Four refers to the top Democrats…