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In Army, sequestration will force about-face on acquisition reforms
Army says its implementation of DoD's Better Buying Power directives saved hundreds of millions of dollars last year, but this year's budget chaos will undo much of the progress.
Tags: DoD , Army , acquisition , Heidi Shyu , Gabe Camarillo , Harold Greene , Jared Serbu , AUSA , budget , sequestration , contracting
For DoD, better buying demands high quality acquisition workers
The Pentagon releases Better Buying Power 2.0 with a new focus on professionalizing the procurement workforce. The updated program includes seven major focus areas with 36 initiatives. Ashton Carter, the deputy secretary of Defense, said version 2.0 takes the lessons learned and data from the last two years to further improve efficiency and cost savings of DoD procurement.
Tags: acquisition , contracting , industry , DoD , Frank Kendall , acquisition workforce , training , Jason Miller
Better Buying Power 2.0 - Livetweeting the release of DoD's new acquisition strategy
Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller live-tweeted the remarks from Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall who unveiled the new acquisition strategy.
Tags: acquisition , DoD , Frank Kendall , Ashton Carter
Peeking inside DoD's next version of Better Buying Power
Should-cost management and affordability-cap elements of acquisition overhaul have worked well, DoD's acquisition chief says. But workforce has overreacted to Pentagon's urging toward more fixed-price contracts.
Tags: DoD , acquisition , Frank Kendall , Jared Serbu , Obama Impact , DoD Report
'Better Buying Power' already making waves in DoD acquisition
Steven Grundman, a Lund Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., and former deputy undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Affairs, provides his perspective on how the Better Buying Power initiative has shaped DoD procurement.
Tags: acquisition , acquisition policy , In Depth , Francis Rose , Steven Grundman , DoD
House drops DoD request to change definition of commercial products
The Pentagon says the way it buys certain commercial products has been abused for more than a decade. The Defense Department asked Congress to include new rules for buying commercial-of-a-type products, which are commercial in nature, but the military is the only or largest customer by far. Industry was pleased to see the House Armed Services Committee not include the change in the Defense authorization bill.
Tags: DoD , Shay Assad , Professional Services Council , commercial-of-a-type , commercial products , acquisition , contracting , industry , Congress , Alan Chvotkin , PSC , Jared Serbu
DoD faces struggles on path toward 'better buying power'
A year and a half after embarking on a strategy designed to get more bang for DoD's acquisition bucks, the Pentagon is still struggling to instill the idea that programs should be managed to what they should cost, rather than what they cost today.
Tags: DoD , acquisition , contracting , should cost , low price technically acceptable , Shay Assad , Ashton Carter , Coalition for Government Procurement , Jared Serbu
DoD savings won't target industry profits
Even though a short era of ever-increasing military budgets has come to a close, Pentagon leaders said Monday their quest to find savings in defense spending is not aimed at reducing the profitability of contractors.
Tags: DoD , contracting , acquisition , industry , Ashton Carter , Frank Kendall , Jared Serbu
