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A cornerstone of the Senate’s acquisition reform legislation—taking away acquisition responsibility from the Office of Secretary of Defense and placing it with the service chiefs—could end up compounding problems with […]

The Defense Department plans to work with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence to bolster NATO counties cyber defenses, Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday. The department “will […]

The Defense Department and federal intelligence agencies are standing up a space operations center that will be functional in six months, the deputy defense secretary said today. “We’re going to […]

There is no deadline for the Defense Department to enact the national security waiver that would allow it to use additional RD-180s in the future, according to a top Air […]

Many service chiefs are frustrated with the acquisition system, telling the Government Accountability Office that the current process takes too long, results in cost overruns and often produces weapons that […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) needs to re-focus on its “seed corn” of research, test, development and evaluation (RDT&E) while facing increasing demands for procurement, according to its deputy director. […]

Efforts to stop the spread of Islamic State terrorists throughout Iraq are hampered by the lack of Iraqis willing to serve in the nation’s security forces, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter […]

An updated third version of EINSTEIN, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity defense program that helped identify the cyber hacking of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), will be […]

An additional 450 U.S. troops will be sent to Iraq where they will open a new training base for Iraqi soldiers fighting Islamic State militants. The additional troops are destined […]

The United States and Japan on Saturday successfully completed a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA flight test, the first live fire of the SM-3 Block IIA missile, according to a […]