The software portion of the Defense Department's innovative adaptive acquisition framework, said one of the agency's top acquisition officials, will be a sea-change in its acquisition practices. The ...

Stacy A. Cummings delivers a keynote speech to the Naval Postgraduate School's 18th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, virtually, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021. (DOD photo by U.S.

On Tuesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum, which featured leaders across defense agencies, military branches and industry who joined in dynamic discussion to share ...

The Army successfully implemented this framework in February 2022. But a lot has happened since we began that transition in the fall of 2020. We experienced a pandemic. New DOD Instructions 5000.66 ...

Despite getting a new name in the past few years, the current Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) pathway is a system whose time may have come and gone. Enshrined in the Adaptive Acquisition Framework ...