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IC Exploring How To Reform Procurement Process To Expand Opportunities, Gabbard Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, May 19th, 2025

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IC Exploring How To Reform Procurement Process To Expand Opportunities, Gabbard Says

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard when she represented Hawaii in Congress.

ST. LOUIS—Mirroring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s priority of opening up the DoD procurement process to find the best solutions, the intelligence community is doing the same, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday. The goal is to avoid using the same prime contractor “over and over and over again” and instead find the best solutions wherever they come from, Gabbard said at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium here. Traditional ways of contracting can be too costly and make it…

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