An Army official told Breaking Defense the new type of contract vehicle would allow the service to buy its software "a la carte" rather than "one-size-fits-all."
Analyst Max Bergmann told Breaking Defense that if President Donald Trump's claim is to be taken literally, “there's a lot of work that has to be done” in budgeting terms by individual nations.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
By June 15, contracting officers must conduct a review of the all open solicitations, pre-solicitation notices, award notices and sole source notices for prime contract awards that are for non-commercial products worth more than $250,000.
The memo mandates an assessment of "the essentiality of contracts ... for the purpose of terminating or descoping contracts for activities that are not essential for the Department to fulfill its statutory purposes."
"They don’t need to recreate the wheel, [but they] need strong leadership with a determined focus,” one source told Breaking Defense.
President Donald Trump had a hands-on approach with the defense industry during his first administration. This time? Don't rule it out.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Sen. Roger Wicker, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a report outlining key reforms the Defense Department and Congress could make to improve the acquisition process, as well as corresponding legislation to implement those changes.
The new pairing is targeting an annual revenue “north of” $1 billion by 2027, says Matthew Warnick, the American Rheinmetall Vehicles managing director.
“We still buy IT as if it was a weapon system," John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA, said, adding that he sometimes felt he's "banged [his] head against the wall."
The telecommunications giant will now add Fenix’s Banshee and Talon MANET radios to its portfolio.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
George Mason University’s Jerry McGinn argues in this op-ed that the Pentagon can move more quickly if it heeds lessons from a previous life-or-death acquisition story.
Granted by Congress in the 2022 defense bill, the new authorities let Cyber Command handle matters traditionally reserved for the armed services.
Smallsat Alliance Chairman Charles Beames argues it’s time to look past price alone to achieve dominance in space.
The need to strengthen supply chains is creating an opportunity for the revival of second sourcing, a method used until the 1990s to secure defense supply chains, write Olivia Letts and Jerry McGinn.