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 ...

This appendix presents a brief overview of the defense acquisition process. 1 The diagram below from the U.S. Department of Defense (2008:12 enclosure 2) depicts the development of defense systems as ...

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 ...

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 Pentagon must default to rapid acquisition processes when buying software, from business systems to weapons components, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo. The move is a “big deal,” one ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 9, 2025, Executive Order titled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” was signed by President Donald J. Trump. The executive order clearly ...

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 ...