IT, services receive attention

Law Aims To Improve DOD Acquisition With Reviews, Workforce Focus

/ January 13, 2011 at 1:08 AM
The Pentagon is facing a slew of new reporting and planning requirements and a call to renew its focus on acquiring services and building up its workforce as part of a recently signed law designed to reform the Defense Department's acquisition system. Dubbed the "IMPROVE Acquisition Act," the new law calls on the department to periodically assess the performance of the elements of its acquisition systems, strengthen its IT acquisition workforce and review internal acquisition guidelines and federal acquisition regulations...

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