Hegseth presses defense execs to move faster in speech laying out sweeping acquisition changes
WASHINGTON — The defense industry needs to become faster, more agile and less risk averse, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
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The Pentagon’s new Software Acquisition Pathway, mandated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s 6 March memo, aims to fast-track how the Department of Defense buys, deploys, and updates software. By exempting software programs from the milestones of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs), the pathway expedites deployment, agile practices, and
Several recent executive orders promise to reform federal acquisition, notably “Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement.” If only it were so easy. The FAR unloved The FAR is long at over 2,000 pages, but the FAR council promulgates a lot of regulations from statute. Congress regularly uses the National
President Donald Trump’s new executive order, “Modernizing Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” could mark a pivotal moment for US defense procurement, according to Jeffrey Nadaner, a former top Pentagon official. Writing in an 10 April 2025 commentary for Defense One, Nadaner argues the order breaks
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