Heather Fortuna Bush, senior vice president and leader of Indo-Pacific businesses for Booz Allen, told Defense One the ...

Congressional negotiators largely back the Pentagon's acquisition overhaul but are wary of DoD's push for additional budget flexibility.

Congress and federal agencies are actively reexamining the bid protest process at the Department of Defense where billions of dollars in procurements are at stake.

GAO found that continuing resolutions delay Pentagon acquisition programs, slowing contracts, production and spending.

The defense acquisition system has been in a near-constant state of reform for the past several decades. This observation is ...

Experts say claims of widespread fraud of the 8(a) program are unfounded and the ongoing audits run counter to the goal of expanding the industrial base.

Large defense contractors spent more on stock buybacks and dividends since 2020 than on other capital investments, like ...

On November 21, 2025, the Department of Defense (“DoD”)[1] updated DoD Manual (“DoDM”) 5010.12, Acquisition and Management of Contractor-Prepared Data. The manual is DoD’s unified playbook for the ...

To oversee acquisition, the Department of the Air Force has had 26 program executive offices (PEOs)--19 in the Air Force and seven in the Space Force, but ...

Katie Arrington, a major voice on cybersecurity issues at the Pentagon, is leaving the Defense Department for a new job at quantum computing firm IonQ, following efforts to move forward the ...

The panel also recommends that Kenneth Krieg, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, direct changes to the DOD 5000 series to establish time-certain development as ...