SD-24 DoW Value Engineering (VE) Guidebook

February 28, 2025 OUSW (R&E) recently issued SD-24 Value Engineering: A Guidebook of Best Practices and Tools, an update of a 2011 version. VE is a sound and effective business practice that can yield significant returns on investment not only for cost, but also for capability performance and schedule. DoW Components use VE to analyze…

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DoD Technology Transfer, Transition and Commercial Partnerships

February 28, 2025 Call for Nominations for the 2025 Department of War George F. Linsteadt Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer Now Open through 5:00pm EDT on Monday, June 23, 2025! The award will be announced at the annual DoW Technology Transfer and Transition Workshop (T3W) in November 2025. For more information: https://rt.cto.mil/rtl-labs/tech-transfer For questions…

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Closing the Software Understanding Gap

January 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), and the National Security Agency (NSA), published Closing the Software Understanding Gap that calls for decisive and coordinated…

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DoD Manufacturing Technology Program and Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel Present the 2021 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Awards at Denver Conference

Dec 16, 2021 The Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program (DoD ManTech) and the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel (JDMTP) recognized the hard work and outstanding performance of nominees and winners of the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Awards (DMTAA) at the 2021 Defense Manufacturing Conference in Denver, Colorado from December 13-16. The Office of the…

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Ms. Heidi Shyu Delivers Keynote at Women in Technology Event

October 20, 2021 On Friday, October 15, 2021, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), Heidi Shyu, delivered keynote remarks at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences 3rd Bi-Annual Women in Technology: Building Tomorrow Together. Founded in 1956 in partnership with the University of Maryland, LPS has evolved into a model of basic…

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