JD Supra

President Directs Four DOD Acquisition Reform Studies

On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” directing the Secretary of Defense to ...
JD Supra

DoD Overhauls Acquisition Process for Faster, Larger, and More Commercial-Like Procurements

The US Department of Defense recently announced reforms to defense acquisition processes as well as arms sales to foreign militaries. The department will reshuffle several offices in efforts to ...
The White House

MODERNIZING DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS AND SPURRING INNOVATION IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

Section 1. Purpose. As Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, I am committed to ensuring that the United States military possesses the most lethal warfighting capabilities in the world. America’s ...
University of Dayton

Acquisition Program Manager: Essential Skills, Job Description, and Career Path in Government Contracting

So what is an Acquisition Program Manager (APM)? What does that even mean? In this article, I hope to clarify some of this and provide a boundary for what the University of Dayton’s (U.D.) Government ...
GovCon Wire

Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Modernize Defense Acquisition

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the secretary of defense to submit within 60 days a plan to reform the Department of Defense’s acquisition process as part of efforts to ...
SpaceNews

The real Golden Dome opportunity – defense acquisition reform

President Trump on May 20, 2025, announced that Gen. Michael Guetlein will lead the Golden Dome missile defense program. Credit: White House livestream Nonetheless, the Golden Dome represents an ...