The Defense Department Inspector General's Office has opened an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the commercial messaging app Signal ahead of U.S. military airstrikes in ...

The five-year-old Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) policy authorized by the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is being reemphasized. A new memo from the Secretary of Defense Pete ...

Department of Defense (DOD) officials are already looking toward the future and next steps regarding their newly established software creation pathway. For fiscal year 2025-2026, personnel associated ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense is shifting how it buys software eyeing greater access to commercial and non-traditional software providers as the Pentagon hopes to rapidly ...

WHAT: Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum titled “Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” that is intended to reform DOD’s procurement involving ...

The Pentagon must default to rapid acquisition processes when buying software, from business systems to weapons components, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo. The move is a “big deal,” one ...