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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

April 24, 2017 By AMK

DoD in process of splitting responsibilities for two new acquisition offices

The Defense Department is parsing out exactly how it will split one of its biggest and most infamous sections after Congress mandated the division last year.

The Pentagon is doing preliminary work on splicing its acquisition office into two distinct areas: research and engineering, and day-to-day business acquisitions, said Mary Miller, acting assistant defense secretary for research and engineering during an April 18, 2017 speech at a National Defense Industrial Association event in Washington.

Part of that work includes assigning distinct responsibilities to each new office. DoD is now picking out actions that were once housed under one roof to be passed off to their new acquisition office parents.

“We wanted to create two undersecretaries [for acquisition]. One, the undersecretary for research and engineering that is really focused on maintaining technology superiority across the globe. It is risk taking, it will do prototyping, it will do experimentation. It will allow and challenge the Defense Department each and every step along the way to think differently, to think large, to think future,” Miller said. “And then there was the undersecretary of acquisition and sustainment, which will focus on affordability, efficiencies, getting things to the warfighter faster and making sure it is the right things.”

Keep reading this article at: http://federalnewsradio.com/acquisition-policy/2017/04/dod-splitting-responsibilities-two-new-acquisition-offices/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition and sustainment, affordability, AT&L, DoD, efficiency, NDAA, research and engineering

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