The Section 809 Panel — the commission Congress chartered to study reforms to the federal acquisition system — is already seeing some of its work reflected in federal legislation. The House’s version of the 2019 Defense authorization bill includes several provisions that closely match the changes commissioners recommended in the first volume of their report, and there are still two more volumes to come.
On this week’s edition of On DoD, we hear from several Section 809 panel members about the rationale behind the reforms that made their way into the House’s NDAA.