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| Pentagon | by Frank Wolfe |
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Executive Order: Commercial Contracts, Other Transactions to Be DoD Default
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While non-commercial Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) will continue, a Wednesday executive order from President Donald Trump states that commercial contracts will be the default for DoD. Within two months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is to submit to the White… |
| International | by Matthew Beinart |
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Trump Signs Executive Order To Reform FMS Process, Speed Up Arms Sales
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President Trump has signed an executive order (EO) aimed at reducing regulations in the foreign military sales (FMS) process in order to speed up delivery of key arms to international partners. The EO directs a phased implementation effort for reforming… |
| Advanced / Transformational Technology | by Frank Wolfe |
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Counter-C5ISR and Long Range Fires Top of Paparo’s List to Deter China
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To deter China, long-range fires and counter command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) are top priorities for U.S. Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)… |
| Advanced / Transformational Technology | by Cal Biesecker |
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Maven Adoption Quadruples In Past Year
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Use of the Defense Department’s marquee artificial intelligence platform for finding targets of interest has quadrupled in the past year to about 20,000 users, the head of the agency that manages the program said on Wednesday. The rapidly… |
| Air Force | by Frank Wolfe |
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Trump Administration Support for Nuclear Triad May Lead to Sentinel Reprieve
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President Donald Trump’s Wednesday executive order, Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base, speaks of cancellations of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) that are 15 percent over unit cost or 15 percent behind schedule, but the… |
| Air Force | by Cal Biesecker |
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New Space Adviser Charged With Integrating Military Space Enterprise
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Department of the Air Force’s acting space acquisition chief recently added a senior adviser to his staff to honcho the seemingly gargantuan task of integrating and making interoperable the military space enterprise. James “Woody” Haywood said he… |
| Congress | by Sarah Salem |
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Trump Order Targets Sentinel, Other Major Defense Acquisition Programs
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In a series of executive orders released Wednesday, President Donald Trump said any major defense acquisition program 15 percent over cost could be cancelled. “[A]ny program more than 15 percent behind schedule based on the current Acquisition Program Baseline (APB),… |
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