The Pentagon's defense pricing office and the Defense Contract Management Agency are set to soon enter into a memorandum of agreement to clarify their roles on commercial item policies and determinations and document a funding plan for the commercial item database, according to a new letter from a top DOD official. The July 18 letter, signed by Shay Assad, director of defense pricing and contracting, comes in response to an early draft of a Government Accountability Office report, the final...