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 ...

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

The Department of Defense’s reliance on commercial information technology has never been greater, or more openly acknowledged as mission-critical. Yet despite decades of reform, most major DOD IT ...

Successive Secretaries of Defense have tried and failed to reform the Pentagon’s acquisition system, which has functioned in essentially the same manner since the McNamara era. Secretary of War Pete ...

Tracye Winfrey Howard, Nicholas Iliff, Jr. On November 7, 2025, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth issued three memoranda that collectively direct a significant shift in defense policy and management.

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 ...

L3Harris Technologies revealed plans for a proposed partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) to expand production capacity for solid rocket motors (SRM) used in US and allied missile systems.

The U.S. Army will start executing within a month a fielding plan for acquiring and delivering Launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) air vehicles to every division by the end of next year, a senior ...