A defense task force has recommended the new acquisition process must be agile and capable of delivering IT systems in no more than 18 months. The Defense Department is going buy information ...

DISA’s contracting officers must use at least one acquisition accelerator, like oral proposals, for 40% of all task or delivery orders by March.

"Without a workforce initiative, it is hard to see the workforce having the tools to take the risks the legislation wants them to take,” Stan Soloway said.

Too much ink has been spilled on defense acquisition reform over the past few decades. In fact, there have been 12 major commissions and panels on the subject since World War II. Critics have been ...

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.

Kevin Fahey, the assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said his office wants to steer DOD away from developing new technologies and training requirements simultaneously. The Defense ...

WASHINGTON — There are new calls for reform to the Pentagon's equipment acquisition process. According to the Brookings Institute, roughly one-third of the Defense Department budget—or $310 billion—is ...

House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers, R-Ala., speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Sept. 29, 2021. (Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images) House Armed Services Committee members ...

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 ...

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