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Overview of acquisition-related provisions of NDAA released

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released a report providing an overview of acquisition-related provisions found in National Defense Acquisition Acts in the last three fiscal years, FY16-18.
NDAAs during the three year period contained 247 references specifically related to federal acquisition.  This compares to 466 acquisition references in the NDAAs for the preceding 10 fiscal years.
The CRS reports that the specific topics that are a focus of the legislation are:
  • Major Defense Acquisition Programs,
  • the acquisition workforce,
  • commercial items,
  • Other Transaction Authority, and
  • contract types.
The report also discusses one of the more controversial and extensive legislative changes made in recent years affecting acquisition: the breakup of the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L), as well as the shift of authority from that office to the military departments.

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House bill makes incremental acquisition reform, Senate version makes sweeping changes

While acquisition reform provisions in the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) are a first step in a multi-year transformation, the Senate’s version is much more sweeping, says a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report.

Congressional Research ServiceThe acquisition reform sections of the House and Senate versions of the fiscal 2016 NDAA have many similarities, with more than half of the provisions in the Senate bill addressing the same issues found in the House bill.

But the overall scope of the two bills is very different, says the CRS report posted by open government expert Stephen Aftergood on his Secrecy News blog.

“Taken as a whole, the House bill was not intended to be a panacea for what ails defense acquisitions,” the report says.

The CRS says it is intended to serve as an initial step in a multi-year, collaborative effort to improve acquisitions.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/crs-house-ndaa-makes-incremental-acquisition-reform-while-senate-bill-makes/2015-07-08

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