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Incoming SASC leader outlines plans for acquisition reform

Sen. Roger Wicker, who's poised to lead the Senate Armed Services Committee, lays out his plan for reforming the acquisition bureaucracy and boosting innovation

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DoD's acquisition workforce is stretched thin

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How to keep new policy from making procurement less efficient

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The Defense Department clarifies how to use other transaction authority

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Report: The slow destruction of the defense industrial base

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A defense acquisition professor's advice on DoD innovation

Federal Newscast

Whistleblower allegations cause Biden Pentagon nominee to withdraw

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Tom Temin Commentary

OTAs change Defense acquisition for the duration

An F-35C Lightning II test aircraft approaches for a landing aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower of the coast of Norfolk, Va., Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The aircraft is expected to be deployed with the Navy in 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Federal Newscast

Navy says F-35 is ready for action

Andrew Hunter, Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Tracking defense acquisition trends in 2018

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DoD Reporter's Notebook

In pursuit of innovative technologies, DoD creates another pathway around traditional acquisition rules

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To streamline acquisitions, 809 Panel presses DoD to adopt portfolio management

U.S. Army special operations forces walk to a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to conduct a high-altitude, low-opening jump with Philippine and Australian special operations forces May 7, 2014, during Balikatan 2014 at Fort Magsaysay, Philippines. Balikatan is an annual bilateral training exercise designed to increase interoperability between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military when responding to future natural disasters.

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Reform panel on track to cut DoD-specific acquisition regs by half

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Defense, civilian contractors laying groundwork to implement NIST information-sharing framework

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Expert panel takes first crack at reforming DoD acquisition system

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Federal Drive

Michelle Currier: Why debriefings are so important

Mick Mulvaney

Federal Newscast

OMB to agencies: Learn to live with less

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Federal Tech Talk

A new perspective on innovation

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Off the Shelf

Procurement potpourri

Bill Greenwalt

People

Longtime Defense acquisition expert accepts R&D job at PSC

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The Section 809 Acquisition Advisory Panel

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Federal Drive

Mark Tanner: How contractors handle controlled, but unclassified, information

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The NDAA & DoD acquisition