The Senate Armed Services Committee is recommending the Defense Department award grants and contracts to industry and academia to help reduce the technical risk and life-cycle costs of major information technology business systems programs, according to the panel's fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill. The provision would require DOD to fund research, development and capability-building activities to make it a "smarter buyer" of IT programs. "Activities under the program would include using industry, academic and government expertise to: develop technologies...
