Defense Industry
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Continuing resolutions temporarily evade shutdowns, but they may also hurt the Department of Defense’s readiness long-term.
January 19, 2018 -
Several industry organizations have resource centers to help industry prepare for a government shutdown.
January 19, 2018 -
Deputy Defense secretary Patrick Shanahan alters the membership of DoD's Cloud Executive Working Group, removing its acquisition chief, adding its CIO.
January 08, 2018 -
Brad Gandee, the vice president for product marketing and management at GigaTrust, offers the industry some ideas for how best to meet DoD’s data requirements.
January 04, 2018 -
A new analysis of DoD contract data shows serious impacts across the Defense industrial base because of spending cuts, including indications that thousands of firms exited the industry entirely.
December 18, 2017 -
Borrowing from an existing exemption for foreign military sales, DoD wants more flexibility to waive its requirement for vendors to supply cost and pricing data in domestic procurements.
December 12, 2017 -
Defense and aerospace companies are calling on Congress to come to a decision to avert budget cuts.
December 06, 2017 -
Roger Zakheim, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the National Technology and Industrial Base's role in promoting and leveraging commercial technology capabilities for the DoD's mission. October 31, 2017
October 31, 2017 -
The Senate version of the Defense authorization bill doesn’t include a provision to make it easier for agencies to use commercial marketplaces.
September 25, 2017 -
Daniel Payne, the director of the Defense Security Services, said the continuous evaluation program will have 1 million employees by 2018.
September 21, 2017 -
After almost nine months of no news, GSA asked vendors bidding on the Alliant 2 GWAC to guarantee their bids through Dec. 31.
August 21, 2017 -
The Committee on National Security Systems released a new supply chain risk management policy in late July.
August 21, 2017 -
The Defense Department has started testing one potential technology to replace the Common Access Card. This one purports to identify users by the ways in which they manipulate their mouse and type on their keyboards.
July 05, 2017 -
Camron Gorguinpour, principal at Woden, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss innovation, open systems architecture and how his company helps organizations gain a new perspective on diversity and defense acquisition. June 27, 2017
June 26, 2017 -
The idea of an Amazon-like market is the latest iteration of a durable idea, namely getting the government to buy commercial items in a commercial way.
June 23, 2017
