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August 3, 2017 By AMK

This is the Pentagon’s new acquisition structure

The Pentagon’s new acquisition plan creates almost a dozen new offices, in what the department hopes will be a streamlined organization better able to manage the needs of today while developing the technologies of tomorrow.

On Aug. 1, 2017 the department delivered to Congress its plan for devolving the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, sustainment and technology, or AT&L, into two smaller organizations — the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, or USDR&E, and the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, or USDA&S.

Those changes are required to be implemented by Feb. 1, 2018.

Among the notable changes, three quasi-independent offices — the Strategic Capabilities Office, the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — will be folded two levels under the USDR&E, while a new analysis cell will be set up to drive how the Pentagon invests its money for the future.

The Missile Defense Agency will also be rolled under the USDR&E, at a time when the Trump administration has made missile defense a priority for the department.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2017/08/02/this-is-the-pentagons-new-acquisition-structure

See DoD’s complete restructuring plan at: https://www.scribd.com/document/355353372/Section-901-FY2017-NDAA-Report

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition planning, acquisition policy, AT&L, DA&S, DARPA, DIUx, DoD, DR&E, Missile Defense Agency, NDAA, Pentagon, reorganization, research, research and engineering

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