Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s chief software officer, said rebalancing the contractor-federal employee ratio is important to ensure the right oversight continues without delaying the delivery of software.
Four of the 18 rights have been stuck in negotiations with housing contractors.
Every year the Pentagon develops a global force management plan to determine how it will deploy assets around the world. But the Defense Department's regional combatant commanders are allowed to ask for more.
The Navy wants to leverage some of the work its major contractors have already done on digital engineering, but legal issues and intellectual property rights pose challenges.
The Army Research Laboratory is using a mature small business innovative research contract to expand its work on StatBond, a product created by Vanderbilt University and Hybrid Plastics.
The Pentagon will create a data council to ensure proper data management and literacy.
Following an apparently successful pilot project, DoD plans to start negotiations with SAP Concur on the price tag to fully replace its existing system.
Even for the government, the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a complicated apparatus.