Pentagon
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PentagonTrump Picks Fox News Host Pete Hegseth To Be Defense Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening he has selected Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary. Hegseth, an Army veteran, is a surprise pick that […]
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PentagonTrump Team More Than Two Months Late in Signing Transition MoU
The General Services Administration (GSA) on Aug. 27 sent a letter to former and current President-elect Trump at a P.O. Box in Arlington, Va.–a customary missive sent to all prospective […]
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PentagonBeck: DIU ‘Not Taking on Projects Anymore Where There’s Not a Pathway to Scale’
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has personnel at combatant commands and other forward locations to aid in fielding front-line equipment requests, DIU Director Doug Beck said last Friday. “The whole […]
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Business/FinancialPalantir’s CTO Sankar Issues Treatise On Reforming DoD Acquisition
A top Palantir [PLTR] executive last week offered a sweeping set of recommendations—he calls them theses—for transforming the way the Defense Departments buys weapons and systems, and how U.S. industry […]
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PentagonDoD Releases Plan Detailing ‘Concrete Actions,’ Billions In Investment For Strategy To Boost Industrial Base
The Pentagon on Tuesday released the implementation plan for its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), detailing “concrete actions” to bolster the industrial base such as investments to ramp up […]
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Air ForceAvio Considering Sites for U.S. Solid Rocket Motor Plant
Avio USA, a subsidiary of Italy’s Avio S.p.A, is considering sites for Avio’s first solid rocket motor (SRM) plant in the United States. The company said that it has picked […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDIU Seeks AI-Based Business Intelligence Platform For Budget Planning And Execution
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday issued a solicitation seeking commercial solutions that can quickly collect budget and contract data from across an enterprise to enhance program management and […]
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WeaponsMore Than $2 Billion in UAE/Saudi Arabia Foreign Arms Sales Approved by U.S. State Department
As the U.S. tries to deter Iran and its proxies, the U.S. State Department has approved more than $2 billion in foreign military sales (FMS) to Saudi Arabia and the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPentagon May Award 70 AI Contracts Under Advana Recompete
The Pentagon is requesting input from industry, as DoD seeks a new Advancing Analytics (Advana) “1.2” solicitation, which may result in 50-70 contracts worth up to $15 billion over 10 […]
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Business/FinancialSecond Front’s Game Warden Available on ICMP, Company Says
Wilmington, Del.-based Second Front Systems said on Monday that its Game Warden DevSecOps platform to approve commercial software up to top secret classification is available on Amazon Web Services‘ [AMZN] […]
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