The defense acquisition system has been in a near-constant state of reform for the past several decades. This observation is ...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Miss., (left) and ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash., (right) talk during a House Rules Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on July 12, 2022.

Congressional negotiators largely back the Pentagon's acquisition overhaul but are wary of DoD's push for additional budget flexibility.

The US Department of Defense recently announced reforms to defense acquisition processes as well as arms sales to foreign militaries. The department will reshuffle several offices in efforts to ...

MCLEAN, Va. & BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A survey commissioned by MITRE revealed significant hurdles that remain in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition process, particularly for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at ...

House Armed Services Committee members passed their initial draft of the annual defense authorization bill Tuesday after a day of debates regarding potential censures of Pentagon leadership and ...

On November 7, 2025, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced sweeping defense acquisition reforms that aim to accelerate delivery of capabilities and inject flexibility into the defense procurement process.

Key Points and Summary - The Department of Defense has a record budget but faces a crisis: its outdated acquisition process is failing. -A former industry executive argues that inefficient contracts ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced “a war of bureaucratic attrition” in a speech on Friday afternoon. The target of his address was the Pentagon’s perennially-criticized process for ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly acquire new technology.