The five-year-old Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) policy authorized by the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is being reemphasized. A new memo from the Secretary of Defense Pete ...

Michael Duffey joins Emil Michael as a keynote at the 2026 Defense R&D Summit, discussing acquisition reform and defense R&D ...

San Diego Lt. Commander Rose O'Carroll, Division Officer of the METOC office aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, shows a radar profile on one of the ship's new advanced weather computers at the Naval ...

The Defense Department is rapidly transforming our antiquated acquisition processes and revitalizing the atrophied Defense Industrial Base (DIB) by prioritizing speed, flexibility, and rigorous ...

MCLEAN, Va. & BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A survey commissioned by MITRE revealed significant hurdles that remain in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition process, particularly for ...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Miss., (left) and ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., (right) talk during a House Rules Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on July 12, 2022.

President Trump’s April 9 executive order, “Modernizing Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” hits the right notes and endorses the right approaches. After decades of ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the secretary of defense to submit within 60 days a plan to reform the Department of Defense’s acquisition process as part of efforts to ...

Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems University. (Christopher Wilson/Army) The Department of Defense has scuttled the ...

The Department of Defense's cloud computing strategy is flawed, according to an audit by the department's Inspector General. In the first of what the IG said will be a series of reports, investigators ...