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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.

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Spare parts an opportunity for Pentagon to spend more efficiently

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Elizabeth Warren

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

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

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Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

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Former military officers continue embracing defense contracting industry despite ethics concerns

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Military largely absent from government reorganization

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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)

Transparency groups decry Air Force media crackdown as new details emerge

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Fully funded defense appropriations bill getting a late jumpstart

Congress is coming in better late than never to try to fund the Defense Department for 2017.

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

Congress wants more from the Trump’s defense budget after hearing about military expansion for months.

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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.

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

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The Pentagon’s acting inspector general blames chronic underfunding for extensive delays in its investigations into whistleblower reprisal claims, which averaged about 300 days in 2015.

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