If Only Einstein Were Still Around to Help the Government Fix Information Technology Acquisition

Abstract

The Various Defense IT trade journals are offering increasingly nuanced discussions of how open source software (OSS), service oriented architecture (SOA), Agile Software Development, and the "cloud" concept can and should be applied to streamline, accelerate, and improve the defense enterprise IT acquisition process. It is refreshing to see these subtly nuanced and pragmatic views in lieu of the "religious" black-and-white arguments that had here-to-fore been typical in the defense-related IT literature. However, generally absent are discussions of widespread success at these various modern IT paradigms within the DE. Why is that?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1016021

Entities

People

  • Chris Gunderson
  • Mark Pullen

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Commerce
  • Community Of Practice
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Congress
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Open Source Software
  • Open System Architecture
  • Software Development

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