DefenceTalkThe F-16 has unequivocally proven its worth for the armed forces in intervention and stabilization operations. In the coming decades, we will continue to require fighter aircraft. After comparing the candidates in 2001 and 2008, and updating the relevant information in 2013, the government has decided, on operational, financial and economic grounds, to select the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/netherlands-government-statement-on-f-35-jsf-49107/

DefenceTalkThe Netherlands will go ahead with the purchase of the controversial JSF jet fighter, despite objections, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday. The decision brings to an end 18 years of political dithering about the wisdom of spending so much money on an aircraft when the defence ministry is struggling to find €1.33bn in cuts, the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dutch-jsf-jet-fighter-purchase-gets-green-light-after-18-years-49079/

DefenceTalkThe House of Representatives has agreed to buy fighter jets from Swedish aerospace company Saab. The controversial purchase still needs the final nod from the Senate – and the approval of a sceptical public in a likely referendum. On Wednesday, parliamentarians cleared the necessary proposals: an armaments programme to buy the 22 Gripen planes, a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/swiss-gripen-fighter-aircraft-purchase-clears-hurdle-in-parliament-49039/

DefenceTalkAs of July 1, the Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 became responsible for providing waivers for customers seeking to procure commercial-off-the-shelf information technology from alternative sources. Previously, waivers were granted by the Army’s designated primary source for commercial information technology, known as IT, the Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions, or CHESS, program office within the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/waiver-approval-for-it-purchases-moves-to-army-ciog-6-48331/

DefenceTalkA recently completed defense acquisition program report, which is now before Congress, is part of a data-driven effort to find out what’s working best in equipping the nation’s military and to fix what isn’t, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of acquisition, technology and logistics said in an interview with American Forces Press Service. Frank Kendall said the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-releases-first-annual-acquisition-report-48324/

DefenceTalkThe Department of Defense’s (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has made some recent progress gaining important knowledge for its Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) by successfully conducting several important tests. In addition, the agency made substantial improvements to the clarity of its cost and schedule baselines since first reporting them in 2010, and declared the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/missile-defense-opportunity-to-refocus-on-strengthening-acquisition-management-47747/

DefenceTalkDefense acquisition professionals need to apply common-sense thinking as they make decisions, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics said here today. Frank Kendall issued a memo on the “Better Buying Power 2.0” that re-emphasized the power people have in the acquisition process and seven common-sense ways that acquisition and contracting personnel can […]https://www.defencetalk.com/top-acquisition-official-unveils-better-buying-power-2-0-47618/

DefenceTalkThe final assessment phase in a program that could lead to the overhaul of MOD’s equipment and support management commences today. Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is the organization that buys and supports all of the equipment used by the UK’s Armed Forces. A core element of the Transforming Defence program is reforming the acquisition […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uk-mod-moves-closer-to-defence-acquisition-reform-47606/

DefenceTalkThis book is a compendium of papers presented and circulated in the International Seminar on Defence acquisition organized by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses on July 12-14, 2011. It contains 29 chapters organized in nine key themes: technical requirement and capability definition; technical and commercial evaluation challenges; optimal procedural framework; contract implementation and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/defence-acquisition-international-best-practices-46722/