is calling on Congress to intervene in an Air Force acquisition decision that allows a foreign contractor to build a fleet of light-attack aircraft for the Afghan military and formally deny that company the right to produce more than the first batch of planes.Ybarra, Maggie...
The AFCS Acquisition Force serves as the government’s business managers and technical experts in the systems acquisition process, looking out for the interests of taxpayers and the men and women in uniform who rely on this equipment to defend our nation. Relying on over 32,000 business and ...
Will Roper, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, discusses structural challenges in the F-15 fighter. (Jonathan Bell/U.S. Air Force) LE BOURGET, France — Will Roper, the U.S. Air Force’s ...
NEW YORK — Usually it takes months or even years for the U.S. military's acquisition process to play out. But recently, the Air Force managed to gobble up more than 200 acquisitions in just one week. The flurry of moves clustered around the service branch's first-ever "Pitch Day...
During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the United States Air Force realized that the normal peacetime requirements approval and acquisition process could not meet the time-urgent mission needs in the theater of operations. As a result, the Air Force instituted the Rapid Response Process ...
The Air Force has not wrung out all the wrinkles in its new force generation model which seeks to change the way the service deploys to be better prepared to deter China in a potential conflict, according to the government's top watchdog. The service still needs to create a plan “with...
The United States Air Force requires everything from satellites, electronics, and high-performance aircraft to supplies and services necessary for the day-to-day operation of military installations around the world. As a contracting professional at AFCS Acquisition, you’ll be part of a team respons...
On Jan. 26, 2023 the Air Force released an instruction that takes a Jan. 24, 2020 Defense Department instruction on "Business Systems Requirements and Acquisition" and "has been rewritten as a supplement and revised to reflect stand up of [the Space Forc
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