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Army

DARPA’s FANG Effort To Revolutionize Military Acquisition Begins

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants innovative individuals and companies to add their abilities to traditional defense industry to help the agency reform how the Defense Department designs and produces complex military systems. The goal is to use on line tools, processes and collaboration to compress development time by a factor of at least five, while increasing the nation’s pool of innovation by several factors of 10, said Army Lt. Col. Nathan Wiedenman, program manager of the Adaptive…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]