Accession Number:

AD1016021

Title:

If Only Einstein Were Still Around to Help the Government Fix Information Technology Acquisition

Descriptive Note:

Journal Article

Corporate Author:

DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV FT BELVOIR VA FT BELVOIR United States

Personal Author(s):

• Gunderson,Chris
• Pullen,Mark

Report Date:

2011-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

The Various Defense IT trade journals are offering increasingly nuanced discussions of how open source software OSS, service oriented architecture SOA, Agile Software Development, and the cloud concept can and should be applied to streamline, accelerate, and improve the defense enterprise IT acquisition process. It is refreshing to see these subtly nuanced and pragmatic views in lieu of the religious black-and-white arguments that had here-to-fore been typical in the defense-related IT literature. However, generally absent are discussions of widespread success at these various modern IT paradigms within the DE. Why is that

Descriptors:

• military acquisition
• leadership
• computer programs
• computers
• open system architecture
• agile software development
• procurement

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE