William LaPlante

Despite its hefty price tag, the Air Force is keeping its program to modernize older nukes

In today’s Federal Newscast, the troubled Air Force program to modernize aging nuclear missiles survives despite ballooning costs.

Federal Newscast

DoD is focused on software, but it can’t forget hardware

Defense

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

DoD to release first industrial strategy by end of year

Defense Industry

Pentagon planning new guidance to help contractors squeezed by inflation

Defense News

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., left, speaks with Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., during a committee hearing with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on the Department of Defense budget posture, Thursday April 26, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House attempt to streamline commercial buying runs into trouble in Senate

On DoD

Rep, Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)/AP/Andrew Harnik

Latest effort to reform DoD acquisition borrows heavily from expert panel’s recommendations

Defense

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)/AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Panel gives tiny defense acquisition tweaks to make broader impact

Defense News

Air Force’s scheduling initiative will be an uphill climb

Defense

Several changes in DoD acquisition leadership

Defense

Air Force claims $2 billion in acquisition savings from ‘should-cost’ management

Defense

On DoD: William LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition

On DoD Podcasts

Inside the DoD Reporter’s Notebook: DoD drills down on service contracting; a controversial decision on contractor pay

“Inside the DoD’s Reporter’s Notebook” is a bi-weekly feature focused on news about the Defense Department and defense community as gathered by Federal…

Defense

DoD acquisition programs remain alive, but sequestration damage is real

Virtually every one of DoD’s acquisition programs took a hit from sequestration in the first year of sequestration, officials from each of the military…

Budget