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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.

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DoD tells industry how it will handle cost of inflation

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

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

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

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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?

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

DoD is eying changes to the sweeping cybersecurity auditing program that could affect potentially hundreds of thousands of federal contractors.

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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.”

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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.

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