The top Republican and Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee say making DoD acquisition less risk-averse will be a big focus of this year's NDAA.

The acquisition process is too slow, risk-averse and bureaucratic to deliver the capabilities troops need, Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Adam Smith argue.

DOD acquisition chief Michael Duffey's memo wants DOD components to submit supporting documents to DOGE before awarding IT ...

On Tuesday (August 1), the Department of Defense (DoD) submitted a report to Congress outlining its plans for realigning the organizational structure of the defense acquisition system to address ...

The defense acquisition system works as well as can be expected given the many, and oftentimes conflicting, mandates it must meet in law, executive orders, regulation, and policy.

DOD Instruction 5000.01, “Operation of the Defense Acquisition System” (commonly referred to as “The DOD 5000”) provides the process for how to buy major defense items and is controlled by ...

The defense acquisition process—probably the overall federal acquisition process—needs to be quicker. ... The military services continue to wrestle with an acquisition system having its origins in the ...

A U.S. soldier operates an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar system during a training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, on June 6. (Pfc. Brent Lee/U.S. Army) The ...