US EditionSpeed Is Central to DoD Sweeping Acquisition Reform, but Not a ‘Mandate’
The Pentagon's Acquisition Transformation Strategy replaces program executive officers with portfolio acquisition executives to enhance speed, flexibility, and performance, officials said.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth evokes a "time 1939" to talk about the intensity of the current threat. He creates a dedicated war production unit (Wartime Production Unit), initiates a reform to make the Pentagon much more agile, and ultimately muscle the military arsenal...
Defense Business Briefing -- November 11, 2025
Welcome to today's Defense Business Briefing, your weekly roundup of the latest defense industry news. This week's top story DOD acquisition shake-up prizes speed, raising questions for defense industry The Defense Department is overhauling its acquisition system to prioritize speed and transform its relationship with defense contractors, particularly the largest ones. But questions over cost, competition and government leverage are likely to sh…
Speed is central to DoD sweeping acquisition reform, but not a ‘mandate’
While delivering capabilities at speed is at the core of the Defense Department’s acquisition system shakeup, the department’s top acquisition official said the Pentagon is not “mandating speed.” “We’re continually going to be dependent on the judgment of program leaders who are executing these programs to understand where does the need for speed balance with the risk that we would undertake to cost and/or performance of the system,” Michael Duf…
Pentagon keen to recruit fresh acquisition workforce talent as it jumpstarts procurement reforms
The Pentagon’s pool of acquisition experts may grow in the months ahead, following major reforms senior officials announced on Friday to drastically revamp the organization’s processes and approach to developing, selling and purchasing products and services. Many open questions will be puzzled out in the initial implementation phase, according to the Defense Department’s top weapons buyer. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainmen…
The recent speech by Pete Hegseth in Washington, D.C., supported by an internal memo, aimed at the major Pentagon manufacturers, places speed, private investment and competition at the heart of a re-engineering of the acquisition system. By targeting longer delivery-conditioned contracts, the priority purchase of commercial solutions "85 %" and [...]
Hegseth Vows Wartime Footing For U.S. Weapons Production
BY DREW FITZGERALD, Wall Street Journal 11/08/25 Pentagon leaders are putting their weapons suppliers in the crosshairs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. military will shake up the way it buys weaponry, equipment and software by making purchases more quickly, and from a broader range of potential suppliers. The plan would streamline Pentagon program offices, develop incentives for new investments and potentially box out s…
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