The nominee for the post of top DOD acquisition official favors requiring two or more competing teams to develop prototypes during the early stages of defense programs.
A senior DOD procurement official said this week the Pentagon has little appetite for new contracts involving a lead system integrator approach, but stopped short of saying officials will never use the concept again.
Agency officials will hold an industry day Aug. 16 to provide information on its Scalable Network Monitoring program designed to develop new approaches to network monitoring.
Thales Communications and Harris have received contracts with a potential value of $3.5 and $2.7 billion from DOD to provide software-defined, single-channel hand-held radios to the military.
General Dynamics and L-3 Communications are expected to be announced this month as the winners of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts from NSA for the delivery of mobile, handheld devices intended for unclassified and classified voice and data traffic.
Senate Armed Services Committee's $648.8 billion Defense authorization bill calls for major management reforms at the Pentagon and sets the stage for a showdown with House lawmakers about funding for the Army's Future Combat Systems.
Lawmakers have denied the $81 million DOD request for the development of handheld satellite navigation receivers capable of receiving Iridium and Global Positioning System signals.
Warfighters conducting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are often unable to get the crucial information they need, according to a report by DOD's Defense Science Board.
