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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.

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Project on Government Oversight

Spare parts an opportunity for Pentagon to spend more efficiently

Defense

Cancelling a Pentagon lobbying rule before it gets started

Agency Oversight

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

Defense

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

Defense

Project on Government Oversight

Watchdog disapproves of secret Afghanistan reconstruction reports

Federal Drive

Project on Government Oversight

Former military officers continue embracing defense contracting industry despite ethics concerns

Federal Drive

Military largely absent from government reorganization

Defense

Transparency groups decry Air Force media crackdown as new details emerge

Air Force

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)

McCain, Reed float trial balloon for another BRAC round

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Watchdogs urge Trump to be strategic in cutting DoD workforce

Defense News

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.

Congress

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.

Defense

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

Defense

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.