Pentagon
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CongressBipartisan Task Force Offers Legislative Proposals To Address DoD’s Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
A bipartisan House Armed Services Committee (HASC) task force has put forth six legislative proposals aimed at bolstering the Pentagon’s supply chain security and reducing the department’s reliance on items […]
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PentagonAustin ‘Concerned’ Pentagon Doesn’t Have Permanent Acquisition Chief In Place
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday he’s “concerned” the department does not have a permanent acquisition chief in place, adding he’s working with the White House on identifying a candidate […]
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PentagonBrown Withdraws Nomination To Serve As Pentagon’s Top Acquisition Official
Michael Brown, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), has withdrawn his nomination to serve as the next under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, a department spokesperson […]
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Air ForceThree-Year Sustainment Contract for F-35 to Include Incentives to Improve Full Mission Capable Rates
The F-35 program has a “handshake agreement” with Lockheed Martin [LMT] on a three-year sustainment contract for the company’s F-35 Lightning II fighter–a contract that will come with incentives for […]
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Air ForceMore Than 80 Companies Competing in U.S. Air Force JADC2 Effort
The U.S. Air Force has instituted a broad competition on maturing Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), as the service has brought in 81 companies to compete for JADC2 […]
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PentagonGAO: U.S. Air Force Needs to Reduce F-35 Costs Per Tail by $3.7 Million By 2036
The Pentagon must move out on affordability improvements for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Lightning II fighter or risk breaking the budget for the plane, per a new Government Accountability […]
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PentagonAAR Corp. Settles False Claims Act Investigation by DOJ for $11 Million
The Wood Dale, Illinois-based AAR Corp [AIR] and its Melbourne, Fla.-subsidiary, AAR Airlift Group Inc., have agreed to pay the federal goverment more than $11 million after a False Claims […]
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CyberPentagon Cancels JEDI Cloud Deal With Microsoft, Pursues New Multi-Vendor Effort
The Pentagon announced Tuesday it has canceled the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract with Microsoft [MSFT], and will instead go after a new multi-vendor effort […]
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Congress
New Bipartisan Bill Would Cut Budgets Of Pentagon Agencies That Fail An Audit
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House last Thursday would penalize the Pentagon for failing to pass its financial audit by cutting the budget for each department agency that didn’t […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyJAIC’s Joint Information Warfare Team Helps Field Malware Detection, Looks to AI for Space Applications
The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Joint Information Warfare (JIW) team developed and helped field AI malware detection and threat detection tools and is now looking to develop AI […]