Addressing the Barriers to Agile Development in DoD

Abstract

Purpose/Outline: How DoD Acquisition professionals can apply Agile concepts within the unique and complex Defense Acquisition Environment. DoD IT Acquisition Challenges: Agile Overview, Program Structure, Requirements, Contracting. DoD IT Acqusition Challenges. Change in IT technology and operations is outpacing DoD IT acquisition development. IT programs are subject to extensive documentation, reviews, and oversight that inhibits speed and agility needed for IT. Major DoD systems average 38% cost, 27 month schedule. Overrun with >$1B/year spent on programs that are cancelled. Congress is demanding DoD to reform IT acquisition: Early and continual user involvement, Multiple, rapidly executed capability releases, Early, successful prototypes; evolutionary approach and Modular open systems approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA625456

Entities

People

  • Chang Su
  • Pete Modigliani

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Addressing
  • Agile Software Development
  • Command And Control
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Military Acquisition
  • Open System Architecture
  • Systems Approach

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.