NewsIssue: Acquisition Policy

AIA Sends Letter to Secretary of Defense Hegseth Encouraging Acquisition Reforms

June 9, 2025 Press Releases

Arlington, Va. – Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President and CEO Eric Fanning today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Hegseth, applauding ...

AIA Celebrates Bold Moves to Reform Defense Acquisition, Urges Partnership with Industry

April 9, 2025 Press Releases

Arlington, Va. – Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President and CEO Eric Fanning today applauded President Trump’s Executive Order directing the ...

AIA Comments on Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Case 2017-016

AIA's National Security Policy Division finalized and submitted comments on Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Case 2017-016, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). This rule has been in development...

AIA Welcomes Acquisition Expert Margaret Boatner to Lead National Security Policy

March 6, 2025 Press Releases

Arlington, Va. – Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President and CEO Eric Fanning today announced former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the ...

AIA’s “2021 Facts & Figures” report details the pandemic’s impact on the A&D industries

September 15, 2021 Press Releases

Report also provides a glimpse at a post-pandemic recovery Arlington, VA – The COVID-19 pandemic took an immense toll on ...

Evolving Defense Acquisition Through Digital Transformation

The future threat landscape is becoming more agile and dangerous as our adversaries field new capabilities at an increased pace and complexity. New and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) swarm logic, multifunction digital electronics, cyber, and advanced anti-access area denial systems are all contributing to an increasingly lethal battle space.

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Restoring Balance in the Defense Acquisition System

Over the past quarter century, more than 300 commissions and studies have produced a variety of recommendations – some of which have become law – to change the way the U.S. military develops and buys new weapons systems.

Defense Acquisition Reform: Moving Toward an Efficient Acquisition System

This report identifies the key elements of the DOD’s Efficiencies Initiative that are both doable and necessary. This report also identifies reforms to the system not included in the Efficiencies Initiative that we believe are necessary to ensure the ultimate beneficiary — the warfighter — has the tools needed at a cost that is acceptable to the taxpayer.