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DoD Reporter's Notebook

JAIC thinks AI might solve DoD's struggles with contract writing systems

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center wants to see if AI algorithms can navigate the Federal Acquisition Regulation and build an RFP themselves.

Defense

Spare parts an opportunity for Pentagon to spend more efficiently

Agency Oversight

Cancelling a Pentagon lobbying rule before it gets started

Defense

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

Defense

DoD plan to classify spending plans gets thumbs down from almost everyone

Federal Drive

Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

Federal Drive

Former military officers continue embracing defense contracting industry despite ethics concerns

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The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

Defense

Military largely absent from government reorganization

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. The top U.S. diplomat overseeing arms sales said Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, she would be promoting American weaponry at the largest air show in Asia, where China’s military footprint and political influence are surging. A large U.S. delegation at the Singapore Air Show is doing “everything we can” to encourage Southeast Asian governments to purchase U.S.-made arms like the F-35 fighter jet, Ambassador Tina Kaidanow told reporters in a telephone briefing. She repeatedly sought to dispel the notion that U.S. influence was in retreat. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Air Force

Transparency groups decry Air Force media crackdown as new details emerge

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks to the committee's ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

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Defense News

Watchdogs urge Trump to be strategic in cutting DoD workforce

NDAA

Congress

Fully funded defense appropriations bill getting a late jumpstart

Mac Thornberry

Defense

Trump's $54 billion defense budget increase isn't what it seems. And Congress is mad

Whistleblower silence concept or intimidation symbol and whistle blower silenced to stay quiet as pressure to expose corruption as a red whistler with a closed zipper.

Defense

DoD IG says low funding partly to blame for delayed whistleblower investigations

Mac Thornberry

Defense

Congress expected to finalize defense cuts

Barack Obama

Defense

Budget deal puts NDAA back on track

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