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December 26, 2018 By AMK

Pentagon acquisition chief aims to reform business practices in 2019

The Defense Department plans to simplify some of its business practices next year to improve the way it works with industry and acquires new products, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said. 

One key reform will be creating more commonality in intellectual property policies, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord said. Rules and requirements surrounding IP have long been a major concern for contractors that worry that doing business with the government will harm them if they lose control over their secret sauce.

“We’re writing intellectual property policy for across the department,” Lord said during a meeting with reporters at the Pentagon. “From an industry perspective, we are trying to be consistent across all the services and the agencies so that we don’t have different requirements for similar [acquisition] needs. … We’d like to have the same type of contract language.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2018/12/18/pentagon-acquisition-chief-aims-to-reform-business-practices-in-2019

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition and sustainment, acquisition reform, DFARS, DoD, FAR, intellectual property, procurement reform

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