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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo this week requiring defense acquisition offices to use the Software Acquisition Pathway and other authorities to buy software. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Army's Software Factory in Austin, Texas, soldiers and contractors collaborate to develop and field software capabilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Army's Software Factory in Austin, Texas, soldiers and contractors collaborate to develop and field software capabilities and learn from commercial best practices. (Davis Winkie/Staff) In the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week issued a mandate to Defense Department acquisition offices requiring all new programs that rely on software to use existing tools aimed at delivering those ...