Squeezing top performance out of every budget dollar will be one of your agency’s goals in 2014. Federal News Radio asked performance improvement officers across government to answer questions about what they think the past looked like and the future will look like.

The overhaul of the Defense Department’s acquisition system is almost here. The new version has been in the works for months. The DoD’s reformed program emphasizes a tailored approach to acquisition contracts.

A new strategy for using governmentwide blanket purchase agreements is coming from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. But the result may be more headaches, not fewer.

The Defense Department is pushing the idea of open architectures — systems that can be rapidly upgraded in increments over time, hopefully for less money. But for now, the military services has lots of systems that are anything but open. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu has more on the military’s efforts to bring open architecture to closed systems.