Pentagon may break up tech offices in acquisition-policy shift

Photo caption: In this 2023 photo, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks at a Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office event in Alexandria, Va. Photo credit: U.S. Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza. Article by Patrick Tucker. Defense One – updated February 20, 2025.

As part of a broader shift in acquisition philosophy, the Pentagon may combine parts of several innovation-fostering offices into a new one focused on buying cutting-edge products from companies, a senior defense official tells Defense One. “We are going to create an organization that is the commercial-engineering version of DARPA,” using portions of […]

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