Acquisition

Section 809 panel delivers 2,000 pages of proposed fixes to DoD acquisition, including a sweeping overhaul of how the Pentagon buys commercially-available goods and services.

Oracle says the Defense Department’s JEDI acquisition is fatally flawed, violating numerous procurement and conflict of interest statutes.

In today’s panel, we discuss the renewed focus on commercial items, and there are a lot of contemporary reasons to do so.

The Air Force believes it’s proved the value of agile software development via its Kessel Run project. The next task is to spread it across the service.

Sanjay Sardar, vice president of modernization and digital transformation at SAIC, recently joined Federal News Network to examine three areas that impact federal information technology: trends, challenges, and innovation in acquisition.

What is FAS doing to make its operations easy, efficient and modern? How is FAS delivering best value mission support to customer agencies?

A day after releasing one half of the final NGEN RFP, the Navy releases a draft version of the other, saying it’s made several changes.

Army Futures Command only came about because of Sen. John McCain’s insistence that the Army fix its modernization problems, service leaders said.

The new Army Futures Command is up and running in Austin. But realigning the service’s modernization bureaucracy to operate in concert will take at least another year.

The Defense Department’s final solicitation for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure is worth up to $10 billion over 10 years, and will go to a single vendor.