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Defense Innovation Board suggests ways to bridge the ‘valley of death’

The Pentagon has money to develop innovative new products; the Defense Innovation Board has recommendations to make those investments more effective.

Defense Industry

Defense Industrial Base loses thousands more firms, mainly because DoD is a tough customer

Contracting

Climate and inflation come home to roost on federal contractors

Defense Industry

How inflation has hit federal contractors

Defense

DoD tells industry how it will handle cost of inflation

Federal Newscast

Biden admin. hopes to make government services more inclusive for transgender people

Federal Newscast

VA's biggest union already pushing back on agency's closure plans

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Reporter's Notebook

Defense contractor revenue is strong, so why is the state of the sector weakening?

Arnold Punaro

Defense

The military has a hard time doing its job when Congress doesn't do its job

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is leaving intelligence agencies scrambling for other ways to monitor and stop terrorists. They’ll have to depend more on technology and their allies in Afghan government — even as it faces an increasingly uncertain future once U.S. and NATO forces depart. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Defense

Where does waste, fraud and abuse in the military stand after Afghanistan?

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Reporter's Notebook

Industry’s patience wearing thin with DoD’s CMMC, GSA’s follow-on to OASIS

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Cybersecurity

CMMC changes to be announced 'very soon'

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Cybersecurity

Cyber EO's software 'ingredients' initiative moves toward initial publication

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Defense

DoD is trying to build sustainment considerations into its acquisition programs

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Reporter's Notebook

Technology Modernization Fund on track to receive biggest pay day ever

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Defense

Focus on military families, defense strategy changes likely coming under Biden administration

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

Air Force Maj. Gen. Kim Crider is the mobilization assistant to the chief of Space Operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rusty Frank)

Defense

Space Force to require all of its employees to be digitally fluent

U.S. Air Force basic military training trainees are issued

personal computers during in-processing as part of a pilot test under a

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement partnership at Joint Base San

Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Dec. 11, 2019. The computers replace all hard copy

textbooks BMT trainees currently use with the intent to help BMT assess

learning outcomes, value and return on investment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarayuth Pinthong)

Defense

DoD overhauling training systems, creating central repository

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019, file photo, attendees walk past a display for 5G services from Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei says its 2019 sales rose 19.1% over a year earlier despite U.S. sanctions that hampered its smartphone and network equipment businesses. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Acquisition Policy

Ban on Chinese products starts today despite confusion over acquisition rule

Mark Warner

Congress

Exclusive Senators join industry groups asking for extension of contractor pay provision

.S. Army soldiers hone their long-distance marksmanship skills as they train at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.

Defense

DIU showed significant strides in 2019 after further entrenching itself in DoD

A Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police vehicle is parked on the other side of a tape police line along the Tidal Basin as cherry blossoms cover the trees, in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2020. As Washington, D.C. continues to work to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Mayor Muriel Bowser extended road closures and other measures to restrict access to the Tidal Basin, a main tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Federal Newscast

Pentagon looks to help keep small federal contractors afloat