Defense Tech and Acquisition
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The defense enterprise’s most-read publication on acquisition strategy, defense technology, and capability delivery.
Every Saturday, we publish a digest of the week’s most consequential developments. Paid subscribers get full expert analysis of the NDAAs, budgets, initiatives, authorities, and reforms that matter most to their work.
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Our readers are the people who shape DoD decisions: 4-star commanders, Assistant Secretaries, PAEs, SES executives, program managers, C-suite and business development leaders at defense primes and emerging defense tech companies, senior congressional staff, and VC/PE firms tracking the defense industrial base. Subscribers span all 50 states and 123 countries.
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About Us
Pete Modigliani and Matt MacGregor are career acquisition professionals with over 50 combined years in defense and IC acquisition, including senior positions at the Service and OSD headquarters levels.
Our work has shaped some of the most consequential acquisition reforms of the past decade: co-developing the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, including the Middle Tier of Acquisition and Software Acquisition Pathway. We’ve served on the Section 809 Panel, Atlantic Council Commissions on Defense Innovation Adoption and Software Defined Warfare, and advised the PPBE Reform Commission.
We co-founded the Creative Defense Network to provide practical tools, training, and support for those executing acquisition transformation. We advise acquisition executives, PAEs, program managers, defense universities, and defense industry leaders on navigating and transforming the defense enterprise. Our work has been featured in major defense publications and regularly present at leading defense conferences.
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Defense Tech and Acquisition reaches the decision-makers who shape defense budgets, programs, and acquisition strategy. Ad placements run in the Saturday edition, above the fold, in the position most likely to appear in email previews.
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