Cameron Holt

Fixing DoD’s broken budgeting system a big reform topic for 2023

No one particularly likes Defense Department’s PPBE process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But it’s been encoded into the DNA of the Defense…

On DoD

Contractors sat up and listened to an astonishing speech from a military acquisition leader

Acquisition

The procurement process challenge: to stop enabling our existential threat

Commentary

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Bots starting to help DoD figure out right price for weapons systems

Defense

National Contract Management Association

Air Force’s next hack of the federal procurement system: One-year funding

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. For the second time in 2020, an independent federal review released on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, has faulted the U.S. Department of Defense for how it has responded when children on military bases sexually assault each other. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon transitioning its COVID-19 acquisition task force to permanent office

Defense

Air Force

Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

On DoD

When it had to adapt to a pandemic, the Air Force contracting community hit the ground running

Federal Insights

How the Air Force is breaking down perceptions of federal procurement

Air Force