Pentagon

The U.S. defense acquisition system was too slow to provide for troops’ needs during the wars of the past 15 years and is especially ill suited to provide the technology […]

House Republicans on Thursday rolled out a national security strategy focused on ramping up cyber and border security efforts as well more aggressively fighting terrorist groups.   Not included in […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in late May successfully tested in a pair of flight tests its enhanced MK 136 Third Stage Rocket Motor nozzle on the Raytheon [RTN] Standard […]

The White House has come out against the Senate’s version of the 2017 defense authorization bill, opposing a number of provisions that would overhaul the acquisition process and rework the […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] have reached a “strategic sourcing agreement” that one Raytheon executive believes, if approved by the Defense Department, could save the military roughly $100 million. […]

Better data and analysis could help the Defense Department and federal government generally make better use of its resources and improve decision making, some former department officials said on Friday. […]

Over the past two years, both the House and Senate have undertaken efforts to make far-reaching changes to the Defense Department’s acquisition process, not all of which have been popular […]

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is re-competing the SOF Deployable Node-Light version 3b (SDN-L v3b) Portable Satellite Communications (SATCOM) program to take advantage of modern technologies. USSOCOM Deputy Program Executive […]

The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) awarded a contract to Blackberry [BBRY] to renew and expand its use of the company’s AtHoc Networked Crisis Communications Suite for one year, the […]

When Senate lawmakers return this June from Memorial Day recess, they will have to contend with the more than 190 amendments to the 2017 defense authorization bill that have been filed Of […]