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 ...

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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 ...

On April 9, 2025, Executive Order titled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” was signed by President Donald J. Trump. The executive order clearly ...

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 ...

Kim Herrington, acting principal director of defense pricing and contracting at the Department of Defense, will serve as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 2020 Procurement Forum on ...