Congress and federal agencies are actively reexamining the bid protest process at the Department of Defense where billions of dollars in procurements are at stake.

For years, the Department of Defense has said it wants to buy more like the commercial market. The FY2026 NDAA puts real weight behind that promise.

On November 21, 2025, the Department of Defense (“DoD”)[1] updated DoD Manual (“DoDM”) 5010.12, Acquisition and Management of Contractor-Prepared Data. The manual is DoD’s unified playbook for the ...

The defense acquisition system has been in a near-constant state of reform for the past several decades. This observation is ...

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Multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy contracting (BBC) are special contracting mechanisms that Congress permits the Department of Defense (DOD) to use for a limited number of defense acquisition ...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a fundamental shift in how the Department of Defense approaches supply chain security. Once the 48 CFR rule of the Defense Federal Acquisition ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (WHNT) — Alabama agencies for the week of August 11-15 are set to be working locations or the contracting activities for 12 Department of Defense contracts. Each day of the work ...

Defense Department officials today adopted a rule that grants DOD authority to limit competition for contracts when buying to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defense Department officials ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (WHNT) — The Army Contracting Command and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation on Redstone Arsenal were named the contracting activities for three contracts last week. In the ...