Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has issued a memorandum directing the secretary of the Army to establish the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or
Leonel Garciga, the U.S. Army’s chief information officer and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has signed and issued a memorandum establishing an interim approved products list, or APL, that the Army can use
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The House Appropriations Committee on Monday released a bill that would appropriate $831.5 billion in defense funding for fiscal year 2026, adhering to the discretionary budget topline in the Office of Management
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed Chanel Bankston-Carter, a U.S. Army veteran, as acting executive director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, or OSDBU. VA OSDBU announced Bankston-Carter’s
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President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that seek to strengthen U.S. leadership in the development and commercialization of unmanned aircraft systems and ensure U.S. sovereignty over national airspace amid threats
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The Government Accountability Office has called on the secretary of the Army to ensure the application of leading practices for iterative product development to rapidly develop and field self-propelled howitzer and other
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jim O’Neill, co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship, as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in a 52-43 vote. In November, Politico reported the
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The Senate on Tuesday voted 51-46 to confirm Michael Duffey as under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment. In a LinkedIn post published Tuesday, the Office of the Under Secretary of
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Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s Costello College of Business and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said Congress should reauthorize the
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According to the General Services Administration’s fiscal year 2026 congressional justification, the president’s FY 2026 budget request includes a governmentwide provision that would permit GSA, with the Office of Management and Budget’s
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Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, said the U.S. intends to reestablish deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region through three approaches: improving U.S. forward force posture;
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