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ARMY COMBINING MULTIPLE ACQUISITION PATHS ON PROGRAMS
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ARMY COMBINING MULTIPLE ACQUISITION PATHS ON PROGRAMS
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Written by Mark Pomerleau
May 11, 2022 | FEDSCOOP
The Army is getting more creative when it comes to the way it awards and
packages contracts in order to increase speed of delivery and flexibility, a top
acquisition official said.
“We are working on multiple different pathways … We’re actually doing something
that none of the other services are doing — we’re doing software pathway
embedded in MTA [middle tier acquisition] to get at the requirements faster and
get capabilities to soldiers faster,” Young Bang, principal deputy assistant
secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said during a
panel at the Army’s Technical Exchange Meeting in Philadelphia Tuesday.
Middle tier acquisition refers to a contracting vehicle that is used to rapidly
field prototyped capabilities.
He added: “One of the things that we need help on is driving the feedback to
capabilities and requirements faster.”
The software acquisition pathway seeks to use common industry practices such as
development operations and agile development in its continuous delivery of
software capabilities to Department of Defense programs.
The Technical Exchange Meetings gather members of industry, the Army acquisition
community, Army Futures Command and the operational community to outline
priorities and capabilities to modernize the service’s tactical network.
Bang later told reporters that embedding one pathway — in this case, software —
into another is creative because it allows officials to decouple hardware from
software, though he declined to identify specific contracts or programs this is
being used on.
Hardware platforms, whether they’re planes or tanks or ground vehicles, all have
software components. Decoupling the two allows the Army to more quickly build
software through open architectures that can then be reused across other similar
software systems.
“How do we potentially use that on multiple platforms outside of just that one
that we’re using? The intent would be, we’re not tightly coupling the software
and the hardware, but also we want to use that software on other platforms as
well,” he said.
The way the Army is envisioning this working is one company could be awarded the
software path while another could be tapped under MTA — all for the same overall
effort — or one company could be doing both. Regardless, the real intent is to
“decouple” the software and the hardware.
This is not without potential risk.
“There is a risk dimension. Most people are actually doing one pathway, like an
MTA or a BAC [Business Capability Acquisition Cycle] software separately,” Bang
said. “Because the Army’s in the current fight right now and our future fight
depends on our ability [to] accelerate things, we are taking a little bit more
of a risk to embed some of these pathways together. But we are mitigating a lot
of those things. We are a learning organization and we’re refining as we’re
going.”
The open architectures, Bang said, should help with integration issues,
especially since one company could be awarded on the software pathway while
another is awarded on the middle tier effort, all part of the same contract.
There are multiple open architectures across air and ground platforms, for
example.
“The intent is to actually create more of that open architecture so that the
integration becomes easier. We’re not there yet,” he said. “But that’s how the
Army is looking at trying to reduce the integration problem.”
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Acquisition, Army, software, Young Bang
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