Air Force plans DCGS software contract to formalize agile development

By Rachel Cohen / November 3, 2017 at 11:00 AM
Air Force Distributed Common Ground System managers are working to award a new contract to upgrade interoperability software known as the DCGS Integration Backbone, to codify its agile software development and extend the contract cycle from three to five years. "That fifth-generation contract speaks as much as to our evolution in contracting and evolution in development, going to an agile approach, as it does to increased capability," Mark Wellspring, a contract engineer supporting the DIB program, told Inside the Air...

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