National Defense Industrial Association

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

More than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base over the past five years, according to an annual assessment by one of the Defense industry’s…

Defense Industry

Climate and inflation come home to roost on federal contractors

Contracting

How inflation has hit federal contractors

Defense Industry

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DoD tells industry how it will handle cost of inflation

Defense

President Joe Biden speaks about status of the country's fight against COVID-19 in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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

Federal Newscast

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

Federal Newscast

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

Reporter's Notebook

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

Defense

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)

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

Defense

cybersecurity maturity model certification

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

Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon official says CMMC changes will be finalized ‘very soon’

Cybersecurity

Industry presses for more time on cyber EO’s software transparency initiative

Industry is concerned about an initiative under President Biden’s executive order that could lead to requirements for a “software bill of materials.”

Cybersecurity

DoD wants to pay more attention to weapon sustainment, seeing successes in new acquisition polices

Pentagon says its putting a greater emphasis on the sustainment of weapons systems — a part of the lifecycle that accounts for 70% of the cost of a weapon.

Defense

Technology Modernization Fund on track to receive biggest pay day ever

Reporter's Notebook

The Senate approved $650 million for agency cybersecurity upgrades, and another $350 million for the U.S. Digital Service and the Federal Citizen Services Fund to address workforce and other modernization needs.