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Long-awaited report would replace DoD's PPBE process with 'Defense Resourcing System'

After two years of study, the panel Congress assembled to fix DoD's budget process made 28 recommendations that could take years to implement.

Defense News

DoD's budget challenges will take years to fix, but reform commission says now's the time to start

Defense News

Military officials encouraged by possible budget reforms, but want Congress to address CRs too

Defense

This top-level executive has left the Defense Department, but not the defense industry

Defense

DoD marketplace aims to shield supply chain from adversarial capital

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD stands up permanent program to give vendors access to top-tier secrets

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD puts down serious money on 5G experimentation

Dana Deasy Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, May 07, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by William Pratt)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon says it's working now to make sure JEDI hits the ground running

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)

Defense

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

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Defense Industry

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

telework

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DISA working on improvements to telework, ensuring it's here to stay

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Defense Industry

DoD OKs companies for safe drone production to wean off reliance on China

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DoD Reporter's Notebook

Defense Department working on policy to pay back contractors faster for work stopped by COVID

Federal Newscast

GSA puts out guide for navigating new rules banning Chinese telecoms equipment

Federal Acquisition, GSA

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Among DoD leadership, eyes are now wide open to value of telework

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Defense

DoD wants more stimulus money for contractors, lawmaker interest is low

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Defense

Pentagon says it needs billions to repay contractors for employee leave

Elizabeth Warren

Defense

Are increase progress payments actually helping defense industry? Warren wants to know

DoD budget, Navy

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD to deliver $3B in accelerated contractor payments over coming weeks

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Defense

Coronavirus is hitting small defense companies, but there may be a silver lining

In this Tuesday, March 17, 2020, photo hand sanitizer and cleaner wipes sit in a cart as Des Moines Area Religious Council food pantry worker Patrick Minor passes out food at a senior center in Des Moines, Iowa. The Associated Press has found that the critical shortage of testing swabs, protective masks, surgical gowns and hand sanitizer can be tied to a sudden drop in imports of medical supplies. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Federal Newscast

USPS sets up coronavirus supplies command center

FILE - In this April 14, 2017 file photo, as crew members stand on the deck, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford heads to the Norfolk, Va., naval station. Toilets on the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS George H.W. Bush carriers that have become repeatedly clogged could require treatments costing $400,000 each to get them working properly, a U.S. Government Accountability Office report found. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File)

Defense

DoD expects three month acquisition delays, billions in payouts to contractors

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week of March 13, 2020 that the Defense Department “wishes to reconsider its award decision” and take another look at how it evaluated technical aspects of the companies' proposals to run the $10 billion computing project. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon to use Defense Production Act for $133 million in N95 masks