defense industrial base

Two DoD agencies team up to collect software vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Disclosure Program started in April, the DoD Cyber Crime Center, DC3, working with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.

Cybersecurity

Graphic By: Derace Lauderdale

DoD seeks single point of entry, new governance to boost vendors’ cyber defenses

Defense News

Should the Defense Department get more mixed up with mergers and acquisitions?

Acquisition

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DoD calls for more contracting flexibilities in 2025 NDAA

Defense

Navy’s new council aims to mitigate foreign investment risks

Navy

Update on defense-industrial-base crucial sector

Technology

Pentagon plan calls for ‘generational’ changes to defense industrial base

Acquisition

Navy continues to address submarine workforce challenges

Navy

FILE - The inside of a computer is seen on Feb 23, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J. A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to boost chip manufacturing and research in the United States with billions of dollars from the federal government. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Contracting

An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

DoD to release first industrial strategy by end of year

Defense Industry

As the world heats up, data shows the U.S. technical edge keeps eroding

Technology

How the Army is bolstering its organic industrial base to keep tanks running

Tanks, armored vehicles, trucks: The Army buys them all from contractors. But over their sometimes long life cycles, the Army relies on its own production…

Defense

NSA plans new ‘innovation pipeline’ to focus on China

The new concept, “Red Ventures,” will help the NSA coordinate both internal ideas and work with outside partners on technology innovation.

Technology

Pentagon’s vulnerability disclosure program developing expansion plans to cover more contractors

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Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.