Acquisition & Procurement

Arnold Bunch Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy to the Air Force's assistant secretary for acquisition, has said the service branch is likely to scrap plans to qualify a second ejection...

The Government Accountability Office has found that federal agencies spent more than $130 billion per year on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts between fiscal years 2011 and 2015. GAO said in a report published Thursday that figure represented...

The General Services Administration has started the source selection process for the unrestricted section of the potential 10-year, Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. John Cavadias, lead...

The General Services Administration has begun to consider whether to lift a mandate that requires commercial vendors to participate in a three-year pilot program for transactional data reporting process, Nextgov reported Thursday....

A new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the Defense Department recorded $296 billion in contract obligations in fiscal year 2016, up from $278 billion in FY 2015....

Boeing has signed a potential $3 billion deal to supply 30 737 MAX passenger aircraft to Iran Aseman Airlines. The memorandum of agreement will also provide the Iranian carrier with rights...

The Government Accountability Office has found that the number of weapon programs under the Defense Department’s portfolio of defense acquisitions rose from 78 in 2014 to 79 in 2015. GAO said in a report...

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...