How Defense Acquirers Can Help Non-Traditional Vendors Navigate Security Compliance
As cybersecurity threats evolve rapidly and timelines to address them shrink, the Department of Defense (DoD) is prioritizing Risk Management Framework (RMF) modernization to clear the roadblocks to rapid acquisition of commercial solutions while improving efficiency of RMF compliance. As we discussed in part one of our series on security compliance, leveraging advanced AI, automation, […]
Meeting the Counter-UAS Threat With Rapid and Modular Acquisition
The Threat Moves Fast. Your Strategy Has to Move Faster. The counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) threat landscape shifts monthly, if not weekly. Tactics and the technology to support them evolve in unforeseen ways, driven by battlefield necessity. What worked six months ago might not work tomorrow. Cheap, adaptable drone systems are rewriting the rules of […]
DoD’s Cyber Compliance Inflection Point: Automation, AI & Governance Best Practices to Modernize the RMF
As cybersecurity threats to modern warfare systems increase, managing risk across the Department of Defense (DoD) is non-negotiable, yet critical compliance measures often stall innovation and rapid response to a complex cyber landscape. Meeting this inflection point with outcomes-based technology and strategy will require rethinking DoD’s approach to managing cyber risk by modernizing and streamlining […]
Fiscal Agility: Unlocking Defense Modernization
At Dcode, we define fiscal agility as: the ability to easily realign and optimize financial structures, processes, and investments around capabilities and mission outcomes—enabling faster, more strategic responses to tech evolution and operational needs. It’s a deceptively simple idea, but one that requires serious reimagining of the government’s budgetary approach—inside the Pentagon and Congress—and it’s […]
Linking Government, Tech, and Venture to Effectively Accelerate Innovation
The Tech Adoption Ecosystem in the Federal Government Today, the federal government has no shortage of need to accelerate innovation across its organizations. Federal agencies overall look to improve service delivery to the public while increasing efficiency and cost effectiveness. Defense organizations seek to accelerate deployment of critical technology to meet mission needs both […]
Solving the Last Mile of Tech Acquisition is Critical to Defense
Dcode is Hacking Bureaucracy to Do It The Department of Defense (DoD) and its agencies have no shortage of cutting-edge prototypes and promising technologies to fulfill critical needs. What they often struggle with, according to Dcode Founder and CEO Meagan Metzger, is the ability to effectively transition these innovations into widespread operational use. “For years, […]
Case Study: Helping the Navy Rapidly Deliver New Capabilities for Evolving Threats
Alignment of technology with mission supports development of a new Capability Portfolio Model Dcode’s client, the Navy Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS), provides program management and systems engineering expertise to support acquisition of solutions, products, and services to meet warfighter requirements. The organization tapped Dcode to help meet a requirement for a […]
Case Study: Helping Space Force Modernize its Launch Capabilities
Prioritization of Tech Requirements and Acquisition Strategy Lay the Groundwork for Mission Success Dcode’s client, a software modernization program within the U.S. Space Force (USSF), was tasked with improving existing software and IT infrastructure at launch ranges. The program looked to implement an enterprise-wide approach and agile development practices to modernize and scale the agency’s […]
Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Contested Logistics: Why the Time to Act Is Now
Contested logistics presents one of the most significant challenges for the modern military. At Dcode, we specialize in bridging gaps between technology and the government by ensuring that the processes, policies, and people surrounding the technology are aligned for success.
Q&A on the Executive Order, “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base”
The new Executive Order on defense acquisition reform has the innovation community talking—and for good reason. It signals a significant opportunity to transform how the Department of Defense acquires technology and delivers mission capabilities at speed. We sat down with our CEO, Meagan Metzger, to talk about what the EO means in practice, and where […]
