The first cohort of the Defense Acquisition University’s Immersive Commercial Acquisition Program has completed the 12-month initiative that aims to educate defense contracting officers on how to acquire innovative commercial technologies effectively.
MoreThe Defense Innovation Unit has finalized its second cohort for the 2023-2024 Immersive Commercial Acquisition Program, which trains acquisition professionals in the Department of Defense on the Other Transaction Authority process for
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The Defense Acquisition University is looking to upskill over 3,000 military and civilian professionals on artificial intelligence and data analytics to support the Department of Defense’s technology acquisition initiatives, Federal News Network
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Elizabeth Bryant, an associate dean at the Defense Acquisition University, has been appointed the university’s director of the office of human capital initiatives. She succeeds Scott Bauer, a nearly two-decade Department of
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The Defense Innovation Unit and the Defense Acquisition University have launched a 12-month program designed to train acquisition professionals on the use of other transaction authorities and the Commercial Solutions Opening process
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The General Services Administration and the Defense Acquisition University have collaborated to develop an acquisition regulation comparator that could enable Acquisition.gov users to compare up to three acquisition regulations by providing them
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The innovation arm of the Department of Defense has selected four inaugural members of a program meant to train acquisition professionals on the use of other transaction agreements and a merit-based selection
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The Defense Innovation Unit and the Defense Acquisition University have come up with a 12-month program to train civilian and military contracting officers on the Commercial Solutions Opening process as part of
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A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report calls on the Department of Defense to identify the funding and staffing needs of a new expert group tasked with helping DOD obtain intellectual property for
MoreThe Department of Defense (DOD) has released an updated version of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) aimed at simplifying acquisition policies based on different pathways. The AAF, known as DOD Instruction 5000.02, includes
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