Defense Industry
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Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
July 05, 2023 -
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
June 30, 2023 -
OPM and DCSA are making policy and technology changes are part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0.
June 30, 2023 -
In an effort to adapt to modern acquisition policy, the Army is revamping its acquisition workforce.
May 29, 2023 -
Space Force uses an acquisition formula that allows for satellite deliveries in a two-year time frame with increasing numbers in each delivery.
May 26, 2023 -
Carlen Capenos, the director of small business programs for the Defense Information Systems Agency, said a June 13 webinar will help small businesses understand what it takes to get a facility clearance.
May 26, 2023 -
Photochemical scientists from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, together with an R & D company, have developed — for the Defense Department — lenses that go from light-to-dark and dark-to light, in the blink of an eye.
May 23, 2023 -
The Defense Logistics Agency has rolled out its cloud-based Warehouse Management System to 12 sites so far and will reach 70 by the end of fiscal 2023.
May 11, 2023 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new draft update to Special Publication 800-171, Revision 3 takes into account a year’s worth of comments and data collection to make significant changes to the requirements.
May 10, 2023 -
CYBERCOM has the money to stop operating under the wing of the Air Force, but it needs to staff up and get a track record.
May 08, 2023 -
Five architectural firms are now at work on proposals for a brand new museum for the Navy. To learn more about why the Navy will build a new museum, as well as to hear about the Navy's vision for the new facility.
May 01, 2023 -
The Government Accountability Office denied a protest by Peraton over the Air Force’s award to CACI in December.
April 26, 2023 -
Defense organizations routinely collaborate with multiple industry partners to develop tactical edge networking and communications innovations. Typically, hardware, software and systems advancements take priority when integrating new components and capabilities into a platform, and it’s only at the end of the process that the network team gains exclusive access to test and verify configurations prior to flight.
April 26, 2023 -
A recent decision from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force to move forward as a class action suit.
April 24, 2023 -
One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Steel rods are brought in by train to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can’t get enough of. The plant is at the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate its production of ammunition and equipment. It is one of just two sites in the U.S. that make the steel bodies for the 155 mm howitzer rounds that the U.S. is rushing to Ukraine. The lack of 155 mm shells has alarmed U.S. military planners, who see it as a critical shortage.
April 23, 2023
