WASHINGTON — The Army is set to release a new software directive in the “coming weeks” to bring more flexibility to acquisition and “streamline the application of modern software,” according to the service’s undersecretary, Michael Obadal.
“For years we’ve been trapped by the color of money,” he said at the AFCEA Army IT Day today, referring to how funds are earmarked for spending in the Pentagon budget. “We try to buy modern, agile software with rigid funding authorities, and predictably … it doesn’t work.”
As part of the new directive, Obadal said he cancelled the “rigid” existing policy and the Army is “pursuing the ability” to replace it with a policy dubbed Budget Activity 08, which “realigns funding from various…
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