FROM THE ARMY
ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE DOUGLAS R . BUSH
ACQUISITION
The Army is improving and modernizing its sof tware acquisition process to get Soldiers the technological advantages they need—fast.
element of our many programs. All of these “smart” systems—from Soldier-carried targeting systems to tanks and aircraft—need sophisticated software to process data and to function. Tis will take on increased importance as we develop and field future systems, including unmanned and optionally manned ground and air vehicles.
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Acquiring the right software is a top priority in the Army and throughout the Depart- ment of Defense. But established acquisition models, developed during the industrial era, have not kept pace with the development of software, which undergoes rapid and constant improvement and upgrades. With strong Congressional support, the Army has begun improving and modernizing its software acquisition processes.
Congress has given the Army more tools and authorities so it can acquire software in a fundamentally different way. We published our software acquisition policy last year to take advantage of the new software acquisition pathway. Tis pathway moves us away from the relatively linear waterfall approach to an integrated, agile and more modern approach to software—trying to take advantage of the way industry is devel- oping software.
Currently, six Army programs are using the new software acquisition pathway. We have a good variety of programs, ranging in size from an Acquisition Category (ACAT) I-D program (Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense) to smaller ACAT III-equivalent
s the Army moves toward an agile acquisition system in sync with the infor- mation age, one of my top priorities is to improve the Army’s policies and practices regarding the acquisition of software. Software is now central to almost every major program we have, and is often the most important
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