Amid a push to streamline and accelerate acquisition, the Defense Department is dismantling its decades-old Joint ...

The new guidance builds on the department’s 2018 strategy by developing digital engineering capabilities that, in part, “connect the phases of the acquisition life cycle, allowing feedback and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week issued a mandate to Defense Department acquisition offices requiring all new programs that rely on software to use existing tools aimed at delivering those ...

The modern acquisition system for the Department of Defense was codified in the 1970s with ideas from one of those 12 commissions—the Packard Commission—as guidance for acquisition ...

Both the House and Senate are backing a plan to replace subjective contractor evaluations in the DoD’s CPARS with a standardized, “negative-only” system.

Amid the government-wide push to overhaul acquisition, the Defense Department is asking industry to weigh in on its plans to revamp DOD’s part in that and meet President Trump’s mandates for ...

This comes after DOD leaders, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, released the “Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” document and posted the corresponding implementation ...