Although elaborate technological demands are certainly one hurdle to the Department of Defense achieving Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the quieter but no less pressing challenge is government bureaucracy, Breaking Defense reported earlier this month. “It’s a very complex political problem, I think the tech is the ea...
The foreign military sales process, wherein international governments seek armaments and defense support from the U.S., is a complicated and highly bureaucratic system that stretches across multiple major agencies, not just the Department of Defense. Officials blame slow industrial base production, lack of Congressional funding and diffuse proc...
Just before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bradford Powell joined U.S. Air Force ROTC at the University of Iowa because he wanted to actively serve the country after graduation, rather than sit idly behind a desk. As fate would have it though, post-9/11, he became an acquisition officer and ended up doing a fair amount...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) will help the Department of Defense transform its cyber capabilities under an approximately $199 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The company said Tuesday it will support the Technical Director’s Office within the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Program Executive Office Digital and Enterprise Services over...
The sprawling Department of Defense relies on extensive funding to support the military services and other defense agencies. The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2024 budget reached approximately $841.4 billion in fiscal year 2024, and it has requested $849.8 billion for FY 2025. Though processes for handling such large amounts of money are ...
A new position and office needs to be created to properly manage the United States’ alliances with other nations and support its success in the Great Power Competition, according to the Defense Innovation Board. In a mid-July report, the Department of Defense advisory group said that the DOD is lacking a “central standing mechanism for...
Scientific Research Corp. has secured a potential $116.8 million award from the Department of Defense for engineering services in support of the Joint Test and Evaluation program. According to a Federal Procurement Data System notice, the award has an initial action obligation worth $3.1 million and, if all options are exercised, an expected complet...
A U.S. Air Force squadron has awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a task order to perform research and development efforts focused on minerals and materials with potential munition application. The 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron task order is valued at $276 million and aims to enhance the Defense Technical Information Center’s knowledge repository...
The first delivery of the Department of Defense’s CJADC2 initiative could be realized this fall during the twelfth round of the Pentagon’s Global Information Dominance Experiment, according to GIDE Director Col. Matt Strohmeyer. “Our goal is to deliver 1.0 of CJADC2 this fall during GIDE 12,” said Strohmeyer during a panel discussion mo...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $823 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide sustainment and operations support services for the Department of Defense Network program. The company said Monday the task order was issued under the 10-year, $11.5 billion Defense Enclave Services contract awarded ...
