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Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors found vendors faces similar challenges as the department in securing their networks.
The proposed House and Senate NDAA bills have language to create new oversight and accountability for defense contractors.
Danielle Moyer, the executive director of the Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, said during her first few months on the job, she created a review team to figure out how to shorten the timeline to award contracts.
A plan to have the intelligence community and the Defense Department share secret cloud services takes both organizations closer to a goal of interoperability.
National Security Innovation Capital is maturing as an investment fund with more hardware startups in its portfolio, and ambitious plans to expand its reach.
Robert Smith, the director of Department of the Navy’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, said the goal is to accelerate new or better capabilities to the sailor and marine.
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
OPM and DCSA are making policy and technology changes are part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0.
In an effort to adapt to modern acquisition policy, the Army is revamping its acquisition workforce.
Space Force uses an acquisition formula that allows for satellite deliveries in a two-year time frame with increasing numbers in each delivery.
Carlen Capenos, the director of small business programs for the Defense Information Systems Agency, said a June 13 webinar will help small businesses understand what it takes to get a facility clearance.
Photochemical scientists from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, together with an R & D company, have developed — for the Defense Department — lenses that go from light-to-dark and dark-to light, in the blink of an eye.
The Defense Logistics Agency has rolled out its cloud-based Warehouse Management System to 12 sites so far and will reach 70 by the end of fiscal 2023.
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