RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
EXPERIMENT THE CYBER
Defensive Cyber Operations pilots a new funding approach for sof tware acquisition and development.
by Jennifer Sevier F
or years, there has been a disconnect between modern software acquisition requirements and congressional funding sources. Software acquisition funding has traditionally been spread across three separate appropria- tions categories: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E);
Other Procurement Army (OPA); and Operations and Maintenance Army (OMA). Tis diffused approach has posed acquisition challenges to organizations such as the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems’ Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), whose mission is to rapidly deliver innovative and domi- nant cyberspace capabilities to the nation’s cyber defenders.
Until recently, the specific ways in which government programs like DCO were able to spend money hindered innovation. In fiscal year 2021, however, Congress initiated a new pilot project to bridge the gap between budgeting categories and software procurement. Trough the pilot, DCO and other participants have been able to more efficiently progress through acquisition cycles and deliver critical capabilities to warfighters timely.
CYBER SOFTWARE PROCUREMENT CHALLENGES Project management has two primary methodologies: waterfall and agile. Current policies and regulations treat software acquisition as a waterfall—a series of steps and sequential phases. Tis approach is at odds with modern software develop- ment, since software is treated as a depreciating asset. Assets need to be continually updated with new functionality, upgrades, license renewals and cloud hosting environments, but current policies restrict the ability to interchange appropria- tions as new requirements emerge.
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