The Defense Department is being directed to adopt special contracting pathways for rapidly acquiring software, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth . “The Department of Defense (DOD) has been slow to recognize that software-defined warfare is not a future construct, but the reality we find ourselves operating in today,” he wrote. While commercial industry has “adjusted to a software-defined product reality,” Hegseth wrote, DOD “has struggled to reframe our acquisition process from a hardware-centric to a...
