U.S. Army Stryker Upgrades Show Just How Fast Industry Can Move
The reality is that the acquisition process will never become fast or agile until the requirements community is restrained.
Dan Goure [2]
Everyone associated with national defense knows that the Pentagon’s acquisition system is too slow. Major weapons systems take twenty or more years to go from concept definition to full rate production. Even modified versions of platforms and weapons currently in production can be tied up for years in testing or in producing the information to support an Authorization to Operate. It takes at a minimum two or three years for a program office to define the requirements for an IT system or software program, do an Analysis of Alternatives, write the Request for Proposal, conduct a competition and award a contract. By that time, the state-of-the art in IT and software has advanced two generations.
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