Acquisition and Innovation
GSA’s commercial platforms program to grow by five providers
Jason Miller, Federal News Network
DIU launches first AUKUS prize challenge focused on electromagnetic spectrum
Justin Katz, Breaking Defense
New rules take effect for agencies buying from AbilityOne contractors
Tom Temin with Kim Zeich, Federal News Network
What is the Space Force’s new Futures Command?
Audrey Decker, Defense One
Pentagon tested generative AI to draft supply plans in latest GIDE 9 wargame
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Breaking Defense
Navy Buys 17 Super Hornets in $1.1B Deal, Last Planned Contract Secures Technical Data Packages
Mallory Shelbourne, USNI News
Commentary: Avoiding Rashomon with defense venture funding: DoD, VCs need to tell same story
Masao Dahlgreen, Breaking Defense
Research
United States Cyber Force: A Defense Imperative
Dr. Erica Lonergan and RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Improper Payments: Information on Agencies' Fiscal Year 2023 Estimates
U.S. Government Accountability Office
The Long-Term Budget Outlook: 2024 to 2054
Congressional Budget Office
The U.S.–China Rivalry in a New Medieval Age
RAND
Events
PEO IWS Industry Day
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS)
April 1, 2024
Sea Air Space 2024
Navy League of the United States
April 8-10, 2024
National Harbor, MD
Public Procurement of Innovation
Baroni Center for Government Contracting
April 17, 2024
21st Annual Acquisition Research Symposium
Naval Postgraduate School
May 8-9, 2024 | Monterey, CA
Strategy
DoD Releases Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy
DoD Press Release
Defense and Federal Government
CNO Franchetti Focused on Growing Shipbuilding, Weapons Industrial Base
Sam LaGrone, USNI News
Navy wish list seeks Red Sea missiles, backs submarine-industrial base
Megan Eckstein, Defense News
US must establish independent military cyber service to fix ‘alarming’ problems — report
Mark Pomerleau, Defense Scoop
More turnover in Pentagon policy office as Baker leaves top role
Noah Robertson, Defense News
Biden picks Army’s Sulmeyer for Pentagon cyber policy post
Colin Demarest, Defense News
Commentary: In fiscal 2025, bet on Congress or begin to pivot
John Ferrari and Charles Rahr, Breaking Defense
Congress
House speaker picks China panel leader to replace Gallagher
Bryant Harris, Defense News
Granger, Gallagher leave committee posts as House GOP majority shrinks
Bryant Harris, Defense News
One more thing...
How Adm. Elmo ‘Bud’ Zumwalt helped pave the way for women in the Navy
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy Times
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti is shown here receiving her surface warfare officer pin as a lieutenant from Capt. Patrick Shepherd, commanding officer of the destroyer tender Shenandoah, sometime between November 1989 and February 1990. (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations)
Women’s History Month is a time to acknowledge and honor the advancements made by and for Navy women: active and reserve, retired and veteran, uniformed and civilian. ...
In the early months of his tenure as 19th chief of naval operations, Adm. Elmo R. “Bud” Zumwalt, sent 121 naval messages, known as Z-grams, which focused on improving sailors’ quality of life. These messages had an immediate impact.
Z-116, “Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women in the Navy,” initiated and directed the process of more fully integrating women into the Navy by opening more ratings and billets to enlisted women.
This message allowed for the assignment of women to ships, opened the all-staff corps and restricted line communities to women, and improved pathways for women to progress to flag rank.
My personal path to joining the Navy in 1985 was made possible because Zumwalt had opened the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps to women.
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Vice Adm. Pat Tracey, the first woman three-star, said of Zumwalt, “His great gift was the ability to go beyond disruptive vision to know how to lay the railroad tracks for change that would have to play out over time.” Read more.
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