Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped ...

The Department of Defense has scuttled the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). In a memorandum signed last week, Defense Secretary Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg ...

For years, I've watched the Pentagon's innovation process with the same mixture of frustration and respect that a coach feels for a team with immense potential but a flawed game plan. So when I heard ...

Defense policy analysts are a fractious bunch. But if there is one thing they all seem to agree on, it is a shared distaste for the current Defense Department acquisition process. Calls for ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth outlined plans Friday for a sweeping revamp of the military's acquisition systems, which he described as sluggish and mired in bureaucracy. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP) ...

When the secretary of defense signed a new memorandum last week, few outside DoD acquisition circles may have noticed, with the curious exception of Laura Loomer on X. There was not much fanfare, but ...

The new Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) regulation still is a work in progress, but mostly is successful in improving the defense acquisition process, according to Col. Hugo ...

Here, there are echoes of Gates: That process simply takes too long, he says, pointing to the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System, or JCIDS. “al-Qaida doesn’t have a JCIDS process,” he ...

Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped develop Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, shown here, during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, Fires Center of Excellence commander, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small ...