Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, Fires Center of Excellence commander, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped ...

When the secretary of defense signed a new memorandum last week, few outside DoD acquisition circles may have noticed, with the curious exception of Laura Loomer on X. There was not much fanfare, but ...

“Reaping the Benefits” (AW&ST Aug 15, p. 48) underscores—via the example of the Airborne Infrared system (ABIR)—why the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) needs to be back under the auspices of the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday laid out a wide-ranging suite of changes to the military's troubled and sluggish acquisition process, intended to speed up the pace at which the Pentagon buys ...

Every new administration deplores the defense acquisition system it inherits and pledges to reform it aggressively. And every administration, while trying valiantly, fails. Instead, the system becomes ...

The new Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) regulation still is a work in progress, but mostly is successful in improving the defense acquisition process, according to Col. Hugo ...