DOD acquisition chief backs 'software color of money' legislation

By Justin Doubleday / March 21, 2019 at 1:09 PM
The Pentagon is supporting recommendations and proposed legislation to change how it approaches software, including through a new category of appropriations. The Defense Innovation Board today at a meeting in Washington approved the final version of a new report on software regulations , which emphasizes "speed and cycle time" as the most important software development metrics, recognizes talented individuals are crucial to improving DOD's practices and stresses how software is different from hardware. The report was required by the Fiscal...

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