Defense
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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 -
DoD admits it's not industry, but that just means it has a different way of getting things done.
June 09, 2022 -
The Defense Department is still figuring out how to raise the cybersecurity waterline among its vendor community as part of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. And some new research based on privately collected cyber risk intelligence shows the problem is as urgent as ever.
June 09, 2022 -
The latest attempt to mitigate climate change comes amid National Ocean Month.
June 09, 2022 -
Congress is concerned inflation rates may outpace the current pay increase.
June 08, 2022 -
In the year since the Department of Defense Data Strategy was created, the DoD continuously makes strides toward its goal of transforming into a data-centric agency.
June 08, 2022 -
The CDAO team merges major Defense Department's tech efforts, bringing together a range of DoD innovation leaders.
June 08, 2022 -
When the government establishes a mandated source of supply, that means there's no way around it. That's what the Defense Logistics Agency found when it issued a solicitation for body armor parts.
June 08, 2022 -
Food insecurity affected one in five military families as of 2021 — up from one in eight in 2019 — according to the Military Family Advisory Network.
June 08, 2022 -
It's an eternal question. How to grow your business in a mature market with lots of established players. The Defense software market is as mature as any, and yet the DoD has a pervasive need to modernize its software to take into account cloud computing, the need to refresh the military strategic offset, and a host of other reasons.
June 07, 2022 -
A House Armed Services Subcommittee is ready to take a deep dive into DoD's biggest program.
June 07, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Air Force now has its own cooking show.
June 07, 2022 -
An association of national security contractors has a $25,000 challenge grant on the street. The Homeland Security Technology Consortium seeks new federal applications for some specific technologies related to identity management.
June 06, 2022 -
The Air Force left out critical best practices in selecting the new headquarters.
June 03, 2022 -
The American Federation of Government Employees thinks it could lead to wholesale reductions in the civilian ranks.
June 03, 2022
