Pentagon eliminates 2,700 rules in yearlong regulation purge

The Pentagon has eliminated 2,700 acquisition rules in an effort to roll back bureaucratic regulations at the Department of ...
JD Supra

“Prioritizing the Warfighter” Executive Order: What Defense Contractors Need to Know

On January 7, 2026, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14372 entitled “Prioritizing the Warfighter in Defense ...
Nextgov

DOD mulls rewrite of acquisition regs

Senior Defense Department officials are reviewing a draft memo that would scrap parts of the agency's acquisition regulations in an effort to streamline the buying process for big-ticket items. The ...
JD Supra

The Drumbeat of Progress: DOD’s Acquisition Transformation Strategy

Drumroll, please. On November 7, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD) released three memoranda signaling changes to its approach to procurement and Foreign Military Sales/Direct Commercial Sales in ...
Center for a New American SecurityOpinion

The Ever-Changing, Unchanged Defense Acquisition System

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

FAR Council Raises Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, or FAR Council, consisting of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Defense (DoD), General ...