Aerospace Industries Association

Defense Industrial Base loses thousands more firms, mainly because DoD is a tough customer

More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry’s…

Defense Industry

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DoD tells industry how it will handle cost of inflation

Defense

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Defense companies asking for leeway with CMMC compliance

Contracting

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Most of industry’s R&D spending doesn’t match DoD’s priorities, report says

DoD Reporter's Notebook

SOCOM

Special Operations Command to issue ethics guidance, amid scandals

Federal Newscast

Aerospace Industries Association

Remy Nathan: Trade groups submit comments on Trump admin’s arms control initiative

Federal Drive

DoD’s vendor base shrunk by 20 percent as defense cuts set in

Defense

FILE - In this file photo taken May 26, 2015, a prototype of a Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is parked in front of the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. The Department of Defense announced Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, that the defense contract to produce the vehicle is going to Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Defense companies getting skittish over shutdown, sequestration

Defense

John Luddy: Contractor coalition goes after proposed defense procurement changes

Federal Drive

114 new commercial buying regs since 2009 highlights why federal procurement needs fixing

Reporter's Notebook

David Melcher: Aerospace execs pleased Export-Import Bank reauthorized

Federal Drive

DoJ, FTC keeping an eye on defense industry consolidations

The two agencies released a joint statement on April 12 “reaffirming the importance of preserving competition in the defense industry.”

Defense Industry

Contractors say they’ve had it with White House executive orders

Four associations representing federal contractors sent a polite, but terse, letter to the White House Tuesday saying they’ve had enough with executive…

Acquisition Policy

During shutdown, critical public safety functions fall by the wayside

Congress

A new staff report from the Senate Commerce Committee highlights some of the ways in which the government shutdown is throwing sand in the gears of the private economy. But the authors also point to several ways in which federal furloughs are jeopardizing public safety.