The Pentagon will soon release an "adaptive acquisition framework" with six distinct pathways for program managers to select from, according to a Defense Department official. Stacy Cummings, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for acquisition enablers, said the framework will be released in December. The document will replace the hundreds of pages in the DOD instruction 5000.02, "Operation of the Defense Acquisition System," with "tens of pages," Cummings said today during a defense technology conference in National Harbor, MD. "Instead...
