The Department of Defense has created a pilot program to allow DOD contracting officers to award sole-source, follow-on contracts to employee-owned businesses. Section 874 of the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization
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Rob Vietmeyer, former director of cloud and software modernization at the Department of Defense, has been named chief software officer within the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s information enterprise division, according
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The Defense Innovation Unit will collaborate with other Department of Defense components and Mitre in an effort to build a microgrid that can serve as a reliable source of energy in remote
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Scott Wilson, developmental test lead for hypersonics and advanced capabilities at the U.S. Navy, said the Department of Defense is building a new hypersonics test bed to reach its goal of conducting
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John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award, said DOD is preparing to award the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract in December,
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The Department of Defense is launching a program that seeks to facilitate sustained partnerships between manufacturing facilities, emerging technology sources and interagency partners and build up a talent pipeline to support the
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The Department of Defense is working on a new project that seeks to tackle long-term sustainment costs upfront in weapons systems development, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of
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The Department of Defense is eyeing commercial hardware and software platforms that can work with military-grade mobile generators to store energy and power microgrids in remote locations. The Defense Innovation Unit described
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The Department of Defense has asked interested stakeholders to propose prototypes for a project that seeks to advance additive manufacturing processes for producing complex parts of hypersonic weapons systems. DOD expects the
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ClearShark, a reseller of information technology offerings to the federal government, will distribute cybersecurity software products and services to Department of Defense organizations under an enterprise-wide blanket purchasing agreement. The company said
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