The US Department of Defense recently announced reforms to defense acquisition processes as well as arms sales to foreign militaries. The department will reshuffle several offices in efforts to ...

Drumroll, please. On November 7, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD) released three memoranda signaling changes to its approach to procurement and Foreign Military Sales/Direct Commercial Sales in ...

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 ...

Pete Hegseth stood at the lectern of the National War College and declared the Pentagon’s buying process broken. The ...

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.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s newly announced overhaul of the department’s acquisition process will give opportunities to nontraditional defense contractors. Michael Duffey, undersecretary of war for ...

As the Pentagon looks to AI to streamline acquisition, Unison's David Kim says leaders need to set clear goals and identify ...

A number of changes to the infrastructure of the test and acquisition community are needed to take full advantage of the opportunities present in the evolutionary acquisition process and to confront ...

The White House on Wednesday released three defense-related executive orders: One to overhaul Pentagon acquisition, one to reform arms exports, and one to “restore American maritime dominance.” The ...

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This chapter contains a description of the status of the capabilities-based planning (CBP) processes of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OJCS).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Miss., (left) and ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., (right) talk during a ...