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April 23, 2018 By AMK

Pentagon names first head of software acquisition

The Defense Department will have an official guiding all software strategy, regardless of what platform it runs.

In another sign of the Defense Department’s desire to change the way it buys and develops software for its weapons, Ellen Lord, the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, has tapped Jeff Boleng—a former Air Force cybersecurity operations officer who is now the acting chief technology officer at Carnegie Mellon University—as her special assistant for software acquisition.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2018/04/pentagon-names-first-head-software-acquisition/147438/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, DoD, Pentagon, software, technology

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