DefenceTalkThe Department of Defense spends around $400 billion a year on goods and services. This includes everything from ships, tanks, planes and ballistic missiles to freight hauling, medical care and even the cut-rate toothpaste provided in government-subsidized commissaries. It also spends a lot of money and devotes a significant number of people to manage all […]https://www.defencetalk.com/defense-department-needs-to-act-like-ibm-to-save-itself-50243/

DefenceTalkTwo years into the pivot to the Asia-Pacific region and the concurrent drawdown in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials today related to Congress the Defense Department’s strategy to maintain U.S. superiority in military technology. Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, told the House Armed Services Committee that until U.S. forces are reduced to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dod-official-force-size-limits-modernization-efforts-50184/

DefenceTalkSpace is fundamental to the economy, the military and the way of life in the United States and officials must continue to guard against challenges in the domain from adversaries, the commander of Air Force Space Command said today. Gen. William Shelton shared with students at George Washington University here some of his worries and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/shelton-discusses-importance-of-space-defense-50056/

DefenceTalkAn amendment published yesterday to the Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement will require defense contractors to incorporate established information security standards on their unclassified networks and to report cyber-intrusion incidents that result in the loss of unclassified controlled technical information from these networks. The amendment will apply to all new contracts that will use or generate […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dod-beefs-up-contractor-information-security-requirements-49688/

DefenceTalkThe Fires Center of Excellence Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate here, is celebrating a major victory after the Paladin Integrated Management program received Milestone C approval within the Defense Acquisition System. This Materiel Development Decision moves the project from the engineering design phase of the acquisitions process into the manufacturing and production phase. “This is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/paladin-hybridizes-for-future-fleet-49672/

DefenceTalkIn the months since the 2012 defense strategic guidance first reflected a new budget reality, Pentagon officials and military leaders have been working on the department’s longer-term budget and strategy, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said here Nov. 5. In the keynote address before the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Global Security Forum, Hagel said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/hagel-six-priorities-shape-future-defense-institutions-49585/

DefenceTalkThe House Armed Services Committee (HASC) held a hearing this week titled “Twenty Five Years of Acquisition Reform: Where Do We Go from Here?” If the past is prologue, the answer to the Committee’s question would have to be nowhere. The reason for this is that the system is fundamentally broken. Reform at the margins […]https://www.defencetalk.com/25-years-of-acquisition-reform-with-little-to-show-for-all-the-effort-49556/

DefenceTalkAlixPartners, the global advisory firm, today released the findings of its annual Asia Aerospace & Defense Industry Outlook. Set against a highly fluid global marketplace for airlines, aerospace and defense manufacturers, and service and maintenance companies, Asia-Pacific remains a profitable region and by 2031 will, among other things, be the biggest airline market in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/the-2013-asia-aerospace-defense-industry-outlook-49470/

DefenceTalkOn the 10th day of the partial government shutdown, Defense Department civilians excluded by law from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s Oct. 7 recall to work of thousands of fellow employees still await an end to the political standoff that sent them home and stopped their paychecks Oct. 1. Hagel said Oct. 5 the department tried […]https://www.defencetalk.com/unemployment-benefits-may-help-some-furloughed-dod-civilians-49369/

DefenceTalkThe government shutdown did not stop the official opening Oct. 1 of the Defense Health Agency, a major streamlining effort of military medicine that has been in the works for three decades and signed into law earlier this year. “This day has been a long time in coming, and represents a major milestone in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-defense-health-agency-to-streamline-functions-49317/