ACQUISITION AT SPEED
DOWN TO BUSINESS
Danielle Moyer, deputy director of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Software Engineering Center (SEC), and her colleagues discuss new ways the Army can do business and save money in the SEC Headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. (Photo by U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command)
Communications-Tactical, Moyer and her colleague Donald Morgan originally started applying data escrow principles to Army contracts while working on tactical radio contracts in 2013. Tis led to Moyer and Gomes formally leading the technical data escrow concept across the entire Army Material Command in 2015.
“We all knew that during testing a system can break or some- thing can go wrong; it’s part of the point of testing. Do we just throw that entire system out and buy a whole new one, or is there something in that system’s contract that should fix it at an affordable rate? Te same things apply when it’s fielded, we need to have reach-back to fix sustainment systems at an affordable rate and expeditiously,” Moyer said.
Moyer was envisaging these considerations and working towards tangible solutions before coming aboard as CECOM’s contract- ing lead.
“I thought about all of the things we could do if we thought about them upfront in those PEO contracts. How do we connect all of the different [manufacturers] and manage the contracting process during the total life cycle of a system? What happens when [manufacturers] go out of business? Where are we going to get the parts and directions fast and affordably?”
Moyer asked herself these questions and started to work out the potential benefits of applying industry practices to Army contracts.
“I thought, ‘What about escrow?’ ” she said. “I found that Amazon and Walmart are involved in a data escrow with their tech data. Tey ask a third party to hold a vendor’s data and data rights in an escrow account that acts as a kind of insurance policy so that if a vendor fails to perform on part of a contract, the buyer can get the data and data rights and either perform sustainment themselves or re-contract from there.”
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