Selling to the Department of Defense
Understand how the Department of Defense is organized and buys, work with the DFARS and its cybersecurity rules, find free help from APEX Accelerators and small business offices, and plan a realistic path to your first defense award.
Start the pathSources
- usafacts.org/articles/department-of-defense-or-department-of-war-which-is-it/
- whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-the-united-states-department-of-war/
- acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars_far_overhaul_class_deviations.html
- business.defense.gov/Engage/News/Article/4542563/forging-the-arsenal-of-freedom-department-of-war-suspends-cmmc-phase-ii-require/
- hudson.org/national-security-defense/new-initiatives-dows-office-industrial-base-growth-nadia-schadlow-michael-dressler
- dslbd.dc.gov/service/dc-apex-accelerator