Acquisition & Procurement

The U.S. Navy has begun to update a program that seeks to accelerate the procurement process for information technology platforms within a year after the service branch encountered challenges in...

Poland has canceled plans to buy secondhand F-16 aircraft made in the U.S. to replace the Polish air force's fleet of Russian-made fighter jets, DoD Buzz reported Friday. Richard Sisk writes Bartosz Kownacki, Polish...

Gen. Gustave Perna, commander of the Army Materiel Command, has called on companies to refrain from filing "unnecessary" protests against contract awards, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Perna told audience at...

The Senate has approved a resolution that would repeal a final rule designed to ensure federal contractors’ compliance with labor laws, Federal Times reported March 8. Tony Ware writes the Congressional...

The Government Accountability Office has found that the U.S. opened $837 billion in contracts to foreign competition during 2010 under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Government Procurement compared with $381 billion in...

The Government Accountability Office has analyzed governmentwide contracting data from the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation database and found that spending on contracts at defense agencies declined by about 32 percent from $399...

The General Services Administration and the Naval Supply Systems Command signed a memorandum of understanding that allows the Department of the Navy to use GSA's reverse auction platform for acquisition processes. The Reverse...

The General Services Administration will conduct the two-day Acquisition Training Symposium that is set to kick off April 25 in Huntsville, Alabama. GSA’s federal acquisition service will host the event to...

Frank Kendall Frank Kendall, the Defense Department's top acquisition official, has said funding defense technology research, development and modernization programs should be a priority for the next administration, DoD News...

Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall have recognized industry teams that have contributed to the department’s goal to provide resources to warfighters while minimizing costs,...