4. Department of Defense · Minor
Require OSD to report on adversaries' acquisition processes
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“Require the Office of the Secretary of Defense to research and report on the acquisition processes used by America's adversaries to improve our understanding of how they are often able to innovate and field new technologies on a faster timeline.”
What has happened
- Not started
No OSD research or report on how America's adversaries acquire and field technology. Searched: the FY2026 NDAA for "acquisition processes" and "adversar" (the hits are biotechnology, foreign-ownership and sourcing provisions); the FY2026 defense appropriations act; the Federal Register full-text API for DoD notices on adversary acquisition; the Corpus of presidential actions and executive orders on defense acquisition (EO 14265, EO 14372), neither of which mentions adversaries' processes. Nothing found.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search. Nothing in the FY2026 NDAA requires the Office of the Secretary of Defense to research or report on adversary acquisition processes: the word “adversary” appears in the Act only in biotechnology, foreign-ownership and supply-chain provisions.
This item was also covered by one negative search run across its whole cluster of related asks in this Chapter.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- Office of the Secretary of Defense report on adversary acquisition processes
- ID
- 146