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New strategy wants to counter increasingly complex drone threats January 7 The Pentagon has released its strategy to jointly counter increasingly complex drone threats worldwide. Photo illustration via Epirus. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a new strategy Jan. 7 to counter increasingly complex small drone threats, one that focuses on establishing a common threat picture, architecture and protocol across the services. The new strategy also sets up stronger coordination between other...

Embrace new ways to buy software or the Pentagon will fall behind January 7 A soldier in Tampa, Florida, assesses the Armys One World Terrain software, which will be used to create real-time, realistic simulated terrain for soldiers to fight on. (Army) We are reminded almost daily that our national security rests on a foundation of software. Every system the Department of Defense buys depends on code to function and each military service is establishing software factories to crank out to...

By Lauren C. Williams Dec 16, 2020 Acquisition reform appears to be losing some momentum to go by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, but Congress is urging the Pentagon to pilot consumption-based buying and cloud, according to language in the conference report. The consumption-based acquisition provision was originally recommended by the Section 809 panel, which was commissioned to develop recommendations to improve the Defense Departments acquisition practices, in 2019. Congress late...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Both houses of Congress now have voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021.  Although the threat of a presidential veto still hangs over the NDAA, we highlight below a few of the procurement-related provisions that likely will remain once the NDAA is enacted and will be of wide interest to federal contractors.  Note that many of these new statutory provisions will require implementation through...

The 2021 NDAA includes a pilot program based on the Section 809 panel recommendations that will allow DOD to buy tech solutions based on how much they use.

The new pilot program based on the Section 809 panel recommendations could speed things up by allowing DOD to buy tech solutions based on how much they ...