Alan Shaffer, the White House’s nominee for the role of deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Defense Department, has said one of his priorities once confirmed for the post is to focus on DoD’s acquisition workforce, Defense News reported Tuesday.

President Donald Trump intends to nominate Alan Shaffer, formerly director of science and technology at the NATO Collaboration Support Office, to be deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Defense Department. He managed DoD’s approximately $25 billion research and engineering budget in his previous role as principal deputy and assistant …

Alan Shaffer, assistant defense secretary for research and engineering — has highlighted the U.S. government’s efforts to collaborate with other countries on research and development initiatives in an interview with Defense News published Tuesday. Shaffer spoke to reporter Aaron Mehta ahead of the nearly three-decade military and public sector veteran’s transition to NATO this summer for a new …

Alan Shaffer, the Defense Department’s acting assistant secretary for research and engineering, has said the department selected a U.S. Navy program as its pilot project under the military’s new “skunk works” weapons system acquisition approach, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jared Serbu writes the skunk works method aims to streamline the …

The Defense Department‘s research and development officials told a House Armed Services subcommittee Thursday the possible return of sequestration in fiscal 2016 will hurt military innovation, Defense News reported Thursday. Andrew Clevenger reports Alan Shaffer, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering, told the subcommittee that half …

A Defense Department leader has outlined his work to partner the U.S.military with allied nations on developing new technologies in a move to minimize costs, Defense News reported Wednesday. Alan Shaffer, assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering, told the National Press Club in Washington that he is formulating strategies to reduce the costs of …

A top Defense Department official says vendors looking to secure government contracts should view the current system as presenting more opportunities to them than hindrances as agencies seek to drive innovation, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes that some contracting and acquisitions professionals said the government should instead overcome a hesitance to use alternative tools …

Across-the-board cuts have forced the Defense Department to shift money out of research, development and acquisition programs to maintain existing operations, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Alan Shaffer, DoD’s acting defense undersecretary for research and engineering, detailed how sequestration is harming the areas of science and technology and engineering at …

The Pentagon is looking to existing technologies and commercial processes in order to rapidly build new military equipment such as sensors, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jared Serbu writes Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, told the station the Pentagon’s innovation approach aims to reduce technology …

The Defense Department must cut all of its research programs by 8 percent each for a total of $1 billion under sequestration and will include grants and contracts in the cuts. University grants will be cut by $200 million this year and the Pentagon could also eliminate all of the …