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February 16, 2016 By AMK

No agility without stability in acquisition reform

In early January, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing to gather suggestions for reducing acquisition cycle times through experimentation and prototyping.

Their hopes for increasing agility were delivered in testimony from three armed-forces acquisition leaders: Lt. Gen. Michael E. Williamson, Army Director for Acquisition Career Management; Mr. Sean J. Stackley, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development & Acquisition; Mr. Richard Lombardi, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.

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The embrace of prototyping is a smart move and echoes other approaches to increase agility by the federal government, the private sector and other public sector organizations. Innovators such as Google have adopted and adapted prototyping to their innovation efforts to increase success of project and program outcomes in a process Google calls “pretotyping” which is now appearing in many industries globally.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/blog/2016/02/03/no-agility-without-stability-acquisition-reform/79761480/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, agile, collaboration, competition, NDAA, procurement reform, project management, prototyping, quality

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