JD Supra

DoD Overhauls Acquisition Process for Faster, Larger, and More Commercial-Like Procurements

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 ...
Center for a New American SecurityOpinion

The Ever-Changing, Unchanged Defense Acquisition System

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

The Drumbeat of Progress: DOD’s Acquisition Transformation Strategy

Drumroll, please. On November 7, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD) released three memoranda signaling changes to its approach to procurement and Foreign Military Sales/Direct Commercial Sales in ...
Federal News Network

Congress pushes back on parts of DoD’s acquisition reform agenda

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

Hegseth unveils ‘agile’ weapons acquisition reform in speech to defense industry leaders

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 ...
USNI

Defense Department’s Acquisition Transformation Strategy

The Defense Department is rapidly transforming our antiquated acquisition processes and revitalizing the atrophied Defense Industrial Base (DIB) by prioritizing speed, flexibility, and rigorous ...
Business Wire

MITRE Survey Highlights Persistent Challenges and Emerging Opportunities in Defense Acquisition

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 ...
USNI

Report to Congress on Defense Acquisition Reform

The Department of Defense (DOD) procures its weapon systems through the defense acquisition system (DAS), which typically determines the process by which DOD develops and buys goods and services from ...
The White House

MODERNIZING DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS AND SPURRING INNOVATION IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

Section 1. Purpose. As Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, I am committed to ensuring that the United States military possesses the most lethal warfighting capabilities in the world. America’s ...
Military Times

House panel advances DOD policy bill with sweeping acquisition reforms

House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers, R-Ala., speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Sept. 29, 2021. (Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images) House Armed Services Committee members ...
GovCon Wire

Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Modernize Defense Acquisition

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the secretary of defense to submit within 60 days a plan to reform the Department of Defense’s acquisition process as part of efforts to ...