On Air: Federal Drive with Tom Temin
Trending:
Listen Live

acquisition reform

DIUDefense Innovation Unit Headquarters building, DIU

Industry leaders band together to ask DoD for acquisition reform  

Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.

Acquisition Read more
(DoD News/EJ Hersom)DoD

DoD takes next step in acquisition reform, renews calls for contractor stimulus

Defense Industry Read more
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Former House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, speaks during a hearing on the FY2019 budget with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer David L. Norquist, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Thornberry’s latest round of procurement reforms tackle DoD requirements, sustainment processes

Congress Read more
Amelia Brust/Federal News NetworkNavy

Audit finds big concerns within DoD’s management of smaller weapons systems

Acquisition Read more

Section 809: Will accountability and transparency be the price of reform?

Commentary Read more
Amelia Brust/Federal News Networkdefense contract-Section 809-purchasing-military

Section 809 panel’s final report prescribes ‘revolutionary’ changes to DoD buying

Acquisition Policy Read more
Rep, Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)/AP/Andrew Harnik

Latest effort to reform DoD acquisition borrows heavily from expert panel’s recommendations

Defense Read more
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)/AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)NDAA

Panel gives tiny defense acquisition tweaks to make broader impact

The Section 809 Panel, tasked by Congress to streamline defense acquisition, is giving its initial recommendations just one day before a major acquisition…

Defense News Read more
Exclusive

The legacy of Better Buying Power: DoD’s gambit to reform acquisition ‘from within’

Defense

The Pentagon’s internal improvement plan, known as Better Buying Power, coincided with several consecutive years of declines in the rate of cost growth for the Pentagon’s major weapons systems, from more than 9 percent in 2011 to 3.5 percent in 2015, the lowest level since 1985.

Read more
Read More »