C. Todd Lopez, DOD News, covered comments by Mike Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, during a Center webinar panel on "Acquisition Next - #1: Opening Programs Up to Modularity and Iteration."
This discussion, and its upcoming companion webinar -- #2: Contracting for Modern Software Processes -- took its lead from the Center's final report Acquisition Next: A Playbook to Break the Industrial Age Paradigm.
In this DOD News article, Brown's approach to finding innovative companies and their existing "commercial technologies" is covered in rich detail. DIUs "commercial solutions open" approach includes agile, modular contracts, and working at commercial speeds. Readers will be interested to see that requirements are not first and foremost in this approach.
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Webinar video recordings can be found on the Center Events page.