By the authority left in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is therefore ordered:
Section 1. Aim. As managing director and commander -in -chief, I agree to ensure that the American army has the most deadly struggle capacities in the world. The industrial basis of the defense of America is at the heart of this effort. Likewise, the defense acquisition workforce is a national strategic asset which will be decisive in any conflict, where the factory floor can be just as important as the battlefield.
Unfortunately, after years of poorly placed priorities and mismanagement, our defense acquisition system does not provide the speed and flexibility that our armed forces must have decisive advantages in the future. In order to strengthen our military advantage, America must offer advanced capacities at speed and scale thanks to a complete overhaul of this system.
Second. 2. Policy. It is the American government’s policy to accelerate defense purchases and revitalize the industrial defense base to restore peace by force. To achieve this, the United States will quickly reform our out-of-defense acquisition processes by emphasizing speed, flexibility and execution. We will also modernize the duties and the composition of the defense acquisition workforce, as well as to encourage and reward the risk taking and innovation of this staff.
Second. 3. Acquisition process reform. Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense submits to the President a reform plan for the acquisition processes of the Ministry of Defense which, to the maximum possible extent, integrate the following:
(a) Use of existing authorities to accelerate the acquisitions of the Ministry of Defense, including a first preference for trade solutions and a general preference for other transactions, the application of office policies of rapid capacity or any other authority or way to promote rationalized acquisitions within the framework of the adaptive acquisition framework. Start during the publication of this order, and during the training of the plan, the defense secretary must prioritize the use of these authorities in all the contractual actions of the Ministry of Defense pending and require their request, if necessary and in accordance with the applicable law, for all the contractual actions of the Ministry of Defense, while the regime directed by this section is under study.
(b) A detailed examination of the processes of each role of functional support within the acquisition workforce to eliminate unnecessary tasks, reduce double approvals and centralize decision-making. These examinations should also include assessments of program managers, contract officers, engineering authorities, financial managers, cost estimators and logisticians.
(c) A detailed process by which the Defense Subsecrétaire for acquisition and maintenance, service acquisition managers and component acquisition managers can effectively manage risks for all acquisition programs through an official board of directors known as configuration board of directors.
Second. 4. Examination of internal regulations. The Secretary of Defense oversees the exam and, if necessary, will offer revisions to the relevant instructions of the Ministry of Defense, implementation guides, manuals and regulations relating to the acquisition to:
(a) Eliminate or revise any unnecessary additional regulation or any other internal orientation, such as relevant parties in the regulation of financial management and defense of federal acquisition regulations.
(b) Promote accelerated and rationalized acquisitions. When new additional regulations or internal guidelines are proposed, the defense secretary applies rule ten for a described in executive decree 14192 of January 31, 2025 (triggering prosperity by deregulation).
Second. 5. Acquisition labor reform. Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Army Secretary, the Secretary of the Navy, the Air Force Secretary and the component acquisition leaders, develops and submits to the President a reform plan, the right and to form the acquisition workforce which includes the following components:
(a) The restructuring of performance evaluation measures for members of the acquisition labor in order to include the ability to demonstrate and apply a first consideration of commercial solutions, adaptive acquisition routes through the adaptive acquisition framework and iterative requirements based on the prospect of the end user.
(b) An analysis of the levels of the staff of the acquisition labor required to develop, provide and maintain the capacity to combat war.
(c) The creation of training teams in the field by the Defense Under-Secretary for the acquisition and maintenance of maintenance, led by senior acquisition executives or managers with an expertise in the innovative acquisition authorities and commercial solutions, and modeled according to the training teams on the ground authorized by section 832 of public law 118-159 (10 USC 1749). These teams should provide practical orientations, deliver models and case studies of successful approaches to the implementation of innovative acquisition authorities and should help the integrated functional program teams to carry out acquisition and maintenance tasks.
(d) The development and implementation of policies, procedures and tools to encourage those responsible for acquiring, in good faith, to use innovative acquisition authorities and to take measured and calculated risks.
Second. 6. Examination of the major defense acquisition program. (A) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Deputy Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Army Secretary, the Secretary of the Navy, the Air Force Secretary, the Defense Subsecretaire for acquisition and labor, and component acquisition executives, will end a complete review of the Defense section of the main programs acquisition (MDAPS), as the title of the Defense section, of the United States. Code, to determine whether such programs are incompatible with the policy objectives set out in section 2 of this order. As part of the review of all MDAPs:
(i) Any program of more than 15% late on the basis of the basic line of the current acquisition program (APB), 15% on the cost based on the current APB, unable to comply with key performance parameters, or not aligned with the mission priorities of the Secretary of Defense, will be envisaged for potential cancellation. The Secretary of Defense submits the potential cancellation list to the Director of the Management and Budget Office (OMB) for future budget determinations.
(ii) The Secretary of Defense must provide a list of all MDAPS contracts, as well as performance against original government costs and approved to the OMB director for examination within 90 days from the date of this order.
(b) Following this full examination of the MADAs, the defense secretary will provide the OMB director with a plan to examine all the main remaining systems, as defined in article 3041 of title 10, United States Code, which are not MADPs.
Second. 7. Requirements. The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Deputy Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Army Secretary, the Secretary of the Navy, the Air Force Secretary and the joint staff heads, will carry out a complete examination of the integration of joint capacities within 180 days of the date of this order, with the aim of rationalization and acceleration acquisition.
Second. 8. Definitions. For the purpose of this order:
(a) The term “adaptive acquisition framework” designates the series of acquisition routes which allow the workforce to provide “effective, appropriate, survivable, sustainable and affordable solutions to the end-time user in time”, as indicated in the instructions of the Ministry of Defense 5000.02.
(b) The term “reference of the acquisition program” designates the cost, the calendar and the performance of the basic lines of a program, as described in the instructions of the Ministry of Defense 5000.85.
c) The term “commercial solutions” means one of the purchasing methods of a product or a commercial service described in part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, Sub-Part 212.2 of the Defense Supplement for the Regulation on Acquisition, or Sub-Parte 212.70 of the Federal Federal Acquisition Regulation; or other industry solutions funded by private investments that meet military needs.
(d) The term “Configuration Hereering Board” means an annual examination of changes in potential requirements, changes in critical intelligence parameters and any significant technical configuration change as described in the instructions of the Ministry of Defense 5000.85.
(e) The term “innovative acquisition authorities” designates other transactions, commercial solutions, the application of rapid capacity offices or any other authority or way to promote rationalized acquisitions within the framework of the adaptive acquisition framework.
(f) The term “joint integration and development system of capacity” designates the officially established Ministry of Defense process used to identify, assess and prioritize the joint requirements of military capacities of the Ministry of Defense.
(g) The term “authority of other transactions” means the ability of the United States government to conclude contracts other than standard contracts, subsidies or cooperative agreements.
(h) The term “quick capacity office” means the rapid army capacity office and critical technologies, the rapid naval air capacity office, the Air Force Ministry’s rapid capacity office or the rapid spatial force capacity office.
Second. 9. General provisions. a) Nothing in this order should be interpreted as altering or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or to an agency, or at its head; Or
(ii) The functions of the OMB director concerning budgetary, administrative or legislative proposals.
(b) This order must be implemented in accordance with the applicable law and subject to the availability of credits.
(c) This order is not intended to create and create a right or advantage, a noun or procedure, enforceable in law or equity by a party against the United States, its services, agencies or entities, its officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
The White House,
April 9, 2025.
