The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden's first year as president.
Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest from Shelby Oakley, the director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office.
The Army is finding ways to use tools initially developed for telework to accelerate the deployment of classified networks on its bases.
The Army is relaxing some standards, however, beards are still a no-go in most situations.
The new secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, is giving his senior leaders two weeks to send in reports on sexual assault prevention programs in the military.
The new program is working with four companies to build a program to look for changes on the earth's surface.
Biden has a chance to appoint people who will address systemic personnel issues in the military.
Both officers and enlisted can apply for early separation or retirement between Jan. 20 and April 2.
To improve the training and education of its cyber, signal and electronic warfare operators, the Army has enlisted the University of South Carolina. The university will develop a variety of degree-granting distance learning classes
The robots may have better stability and flexibility by taking advantage of living muscles.
DISA launched its cloud-based internet isolation program as a way to keep malware off of DoD networks, but it also reduced the need for expensive IT infrastructure upgrades.
The Defense Information Systems Agency started implementing functionality from the $7.6 billion contract on Thursday, deploying DEOS capabilities first to the agency's own users.
The Coast Guard will focus on five areas and then expand if the program is successful.
The program aims to fight the problem of "adversarial capital" by pairing companies working on promising military technology together with investors that DoD has verified are free of foreign influence.