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Better Buying Power
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The Defense Department will not be releasing a Better Buying Power 4.0 and will instead focus on policies from the past five years, which the under secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics said have been working.
December 02, 2015 -
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Better Buying Power at the Pentagon is only one example of attempts to innovate in the acquisition space. The new acquisition corps that's set up like the U.S. Digital Services office is another one, but it's focused on policy and process. Michael Fischetti is executive director of the National Contract Management Association. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that government spends too much time thinking about process -- and not enough about people.
June 29, 2015 -
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The latest iteration of Better Buying Power from the Department of Defense and legislation coming out of the Senate Armed Services Committee are two of the most recent efforts to help DoD buy better. Michael O\'Hanlon is co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution. His latest work is titled, \"Pentagon Acquisition Policy: Three quarters right, one quarter broken\". He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about what he calls the JIEDDO model of acquisition.
June 15, 2015 -
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The latest iteration of Better Buying Power from the Department of Defense, and legislation coming out of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are two of the most recent efforts to help DoD buy better. Michael O\'Hanlon is co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution. His latest work is titled \"Pentagon Acquisition Policy: Three quarters right -- one quarter broken\". He tells In Depth with Francis Rose whether three-quarters right is enough to get the job done for the military.
June 12, 2015 -
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Over five years, Air Force has beat the independent cost estimates in its acquisition programs by a collective $2 billion, according to the service's assistant secretary for acquisition. Some of the savings have been returned to the Air Force's top line, but acquisition managers have been allowed to plow some of the money back into their own programs.
February 18, 2015 -
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Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told the House Armed Services Committee that a bunch of incremental changes could help DoD find success with its acquisitions more often. The seven legislative proposals address redundant documents and processes that the military needs help from Congress to get rid of and give program managers more time.
January 29, 2015 -
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A new series of acquisition changes called "Bending the Cost Curve" aims to make the overall Air Force acquisition process more responsive to technological advances, and reduce the time it takes to buy major weapons systems. The Air Force Research Lab will host a technology challenge program with the largest award in military history.
January 16, 2015 -
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The Defense Contract Management Agency is creating a new team of dedicated pricing experts, looking for more consistent decisions within DoD about what constitutes a commercial product.
December 10, 2014 -
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DoD contracting officers now are required to upload the outcomes of their large sole-source procurements into a centralized database. This is part of a Pentagon effort to make sure the government has as much information as possible when it strikes deals with vendors for the same products it's bought before.
November 07, 2014 -
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Steve Schooner, Nash & Cibinic professor of Government Procurement Law and co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at the George Washington University Law School, will discuss procurement reform and other acquisition issues with host Roger Waldron. November 4, 2014
November 04, 2014 -
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The Defense Department is requiring senior officials to review major acquisitions before they receive approval to move into the technology development. That's the phase commonly known as Milestone A. This change is part of the rigor of the Better Buying Power initiative. Federal News Radio's Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss the current and future impact of BBP.
October 29, 2014 -
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Katrina McFarland, the assistant secretary of Defense for acquisition, said senior officials review solicitations before they get Milestone A approval to move into the technology development phase. This type of analysis had been missing previously or only done after it was too late.
October 29, 2014 -
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Steve Schooner, Nash & Cibinic professor of Government Procurement Law and co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at the George Washington University Law School, will discuss procurement reform and other acquisition issues with host Roger Waldron. October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014 -
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The latest blueprint to improve DoD's acquisition process will try to help the military achieve game-changing end products and spend less time on the business end of the acquisition system. Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said the strategy remains in draft form while DoD gathers feedback from a variety of experts.
September 22, 2014
