Potomac Officers Club, the nation’s leading GovCon networking events organization, is excited to confirm Michael Duffey, under secretary of war for acquisition and sustainment, as the opening keynote ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo this week requiring defense acquisition offices to use the Software Acquisition Pathway and other authorities to buy software. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) ...

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 ...

Section 1. Purpose. As Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, I am committed to ensuring that the United States military possesses the most lethal warfighting capabilities in the world. America’s ...

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 ...

A U.S. soldier operates an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar system during a training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, on June 6. (Pfc. Brent Lee/U.S. Army) The United ...

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act continues the push to accelerate defense acquisition, expand the industrial base, and reduce barriers for commercial entrants. The 2026 NDAA signals a ...

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 ...