By Lauren C. Williams
Mar 17, 2021
Could the Defense Department’s goal of having unified communications across the military along with an escalating tech competition with China be the impetus needed for true budget and acquisition reforms?
Bill Greenwalt, a fellow for the American Enterprise Institute who served as the deputy undersecretary of defense for industrial policy during the Bush administration, said the budget process “is the single most important process to look at if you want to have acquisition reform.”
“In the near term, we need to move fast because China’s moving fast,” embracing flexible budget pilots that could be for specific missions, while striving for long-term reforms, Greenwalt said during a March 5 virtual Hudson Institute event on budget agility and competing with China.
By Justin Katz
Mar 16, 2021
As more details have emerged about the breach into federal agencies involving SolarWinds Orion, senior administration officials and analysts have started calling the incident a supply chain attack. While the government continues to assess the scope and scale of that breach, the White House is now directing various executive departments to assess the risks in their respective supply chains.
The executive order calls for both 100-day immediate reviews of certain products such as semiconductors and high-capacity batteries as well as year-long sectoral supply chain reviews of the defense, health, transportation and agriculture industries, among others.
United States DoD Electronic Warfare Market 2020-2025 - Multipurpose EW Programs to Sustain and Enhance Operations
March 11, 2021 07:53 ET | Source: Research and Markets Research and Markets Dublin, IRELAND
Dublin, March 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The US DoD Electronic Warfare, 2020-2025 report has been added to
ResearchAndMarkets.com s offering.
This research service focuses on the US Department of Defense (DoD) electronic warfare market. Representative programs, contracts, and market participants are included to form an overview picture of DoD spending on this technology. An analysis of research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E); procurement; operations and maintenance (O&M); and a variety of services are included in this study, along with contract activity for the 2020 calendar year. DoD electronic warfare activities spending consists of Army, Navy/Marine Corps, Air Force/Space Force, and Joint Service spendin
The Space Force wants a user-friendly portal, including back-end infrastructure, data storage, content management, development and testing infrastructure, user testing and validation.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for ways individual warfighters can strap on a portable personal air mobility system to fly themselves to and from missions.