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 Pentagon Needs Hill Help With Software Fixes, Including On F-35
Acquisition chief Ellen Lord wants a radically new way of buying software, but appropriators have to approve.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 03, 2019 at 4:25 PM


PENTAGON: Congress has to change the law so the Pentagon can fix its broken process for acquiring software, Ellen Lord said today. It would allow her to launch multiple pilot projects next year. One of those pilots would be used to overhaul the F-35 fighter’s notoriously troubled maintenance system, ALIS.

The pilots won’t need additional funding, Lord said. What’s necessary, she said, is a legislative change so each project’s funding can be treated as a single line item, to be used however its managers think best, instead of appropriating one pot of money to be used only for development, another for operations, and a third for sustainment.

“We are asking to have the authority to do some pilots in ’20,” Lord said, “[with] just one line of software development, so we can move back and forth among those stages” — which is how Silicon Valley does it.

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/pentagon-needs-hill-help-with-software-fixes-including-on-f-35/