Defense Industry
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Mike Madsen, the deputy director of Defense Innovation Unit, said his organization in 2021 published 26 solicitations for commercial solutions for which it received 1,100 proposals. The solicitations on average received 43 proposals each.
June 10, 2022 -
Sharon Woods, the director of the Host and Compute Center at DISA, said the agency surged people and resources to ensure all the workloads in milCloud 2.0 transitioned to a new environment.
June 02, 2022 -
Moshe Schwartz argues the National Security Innovation and Industrial Base is becoming detached from the greater U.S. economic base as private industry increasingly opts not to work with the federal government in general, and the Defense Department in particular.
May 20, 2022 -
As part of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification exercise, DoD will figure out which data under Level 2 will require self-assessments and which will require third-party assessments.
May 09, 2022 -
The defense industrial base faces many challenges, like inflation and Ukraine, that need to be dealt with this fiscal year.
May 03, 2022 -
Microsoft lost the 10-year top secret cloud contract competition for a second time, but decided not to protest.
April 26, 2022 -
The Defense Acquisition University and the Defense Innovation Unit have teamed up to offer what you might call an acquisition baptism.
April 21, 2022 -
The Navy's littoral combat ship program has never lived up to its promise. Although it scaled back, the Navy still plans to field 35 of the ships, but they have serious and persistent problems.
March 09, 2022 -
To fight and win the nation's wars, the Defense Department needs the best possible armaments. The National Armaments Consortium brings together contractors, researchers and academics in the development of new armament technologies for the military to acquire and test.
March 04, 2022 -
Longtime federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.
March 01, 2022 -
New reports from DoD and NDIA highlight ongoing challenges the defense industrial base is facing in light of rising tensions among near peer competitors.
February 28, 2022 -
Pentagon planners know the U.S. military needs new technologies if it hopes to stay on top. But many of the innovation initiatives don't gain scale because of the 1960s-era planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) process.
February 22, 2022 -
The Defense Department has released a report that says mergers and consolidation among its contractors pose risks to the U.S. economy and national security
February 15, 2022 -
Paul Puckett, the director of the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, said the cArmy platform and CAMO vehicle demonstrate how to optimize cloud buying for the entire service.
February 10, 2022 -
Former leader of DoD's CMMC program alleges her security clearance suspension and later elimination of her position were "politically influenced."
February 08, 2022
