President Trump on May 20, 2025, announced that Gen. Michael Guetlein will lead the Golden Dome missile defense program. Credit: White House livestream Nonetheless, the Golden Dome represents an ...

The memo to senior Pentagon DoD leaders, U.S. combatant commanders and defense agency and field activity directors was dated February 6 and released publicly this afternoon. “While commercial industry ...

The modern acquisition system for the Department of Defense was codified in the 1970s with ideas from one of those 12 commissions—the Packard Commission—as guidance for acquisition ...

The defense acquisition system works as well as can be expected given the many, and oftentimes conflicting, mandates it must meet in law, executive orders, regulation, and policy.

In Skeen's most recent role, she led an approximately 200,000-employee team in managing the Defense Department's overall acquisition portfolio.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued several recommendations to the Department of Defense last month regarding how its components should approach acquiring AI.

The Department of Defense is tweaking its contracting strategy to place more of an emphasis on meeting small business acquisition goals, even it if means supplanting its use of Best in Class vehicles.

Space acquisition chief: DoD will buy small satellites, at fixed prices ‘There’s a lot of pressure on the Department to go faster in space acquisition’ by Sandra Erwin December 15, 2022 ...