Cummings delivers a keynote speech to the Naval Postgraduate School's 18th Annual Acquisition ... (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase) A top procurement official at the ...

The software portion of the Defense Department's innovative adaptive acquisition framework, said one of the agency's top acquisition officials, will be a sea-change in its acquisition practices.

President Donald Trump signed three executive orders focused on accelerating defense procurement, improving foreign defense sales between the U.S. and its allies and revitalizing American maritime ...

9. The update also includes new tenets implemented by the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, a streamlined set of pathways aimed to help speed up buying and delivering DOD's needs. Ellen Lord ...

gave rise to DOD’s new “adaptive acquisition framework” aimed at staying ahead of global competitors. While the acquisition tools may be new, the process of developing and procuring new ...

Software will now be bought under its own “pathway” in what the DOD is called the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, which allows for greater flexibility in acquiring different kinds of goods and ...

The Defense Department ... most transformational change to acquisition policy in decades." The Pentagon has said it expects to publish the adaptive acquisition framework in January, which will ...

House and Senate reports include provisions for GAO to assess the military departments’ approaches to implementing DOD’s adaptive acquisition framework and incorporating leading practices for ...

Cummings wrote in her submitted testimony that DOD was in the midst of creating data and analytics capabilities to assess the impact of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, which is a rewrite of ...

The White House's pick to be the Pentagon's top weapons buyer wants to make sure warfighters get the latest tech as quickly as possible – and that starts with reviewing the previous ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency on May 21 released a new Defense Department-wide framework standardizing IT services ... organization with less overhead and reformed business and acquisition ...

The existing cybersecurity framework for defense contractors is derived from various sources. Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012 requires that contractors ...