Decoupling IT Acquisition Processes…

…unless we create voices for a radical change, the critical IT component of our acquisition system will be swept into the same bucket as weapon systems which are currently pushing toward more oversight…

As with all organizational activity, resource allocation is the most obvious power base (“he with the gold rules”) and the place where large amounts of organizational energy are applied. As a public organization that has commanded a large percentage of the Federal budget each year, the DoD expends a large amount of resources (people, policy, and oversight) to provide public transparency to DoD expenditures in order to assure Congress and the tax payers that public monies are spent wisely and properly. With the exception of a few well publicized examples, the Department has done an credible job of ensuring that public money is properly spent.

…our adversaries are exploiting most modern IT capabilities to support command & control, sensor information aggregation, and weapon control.

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