Establishing new TechFAR for agile sourcing of COTS, Cloud and XaaS

[johnaweiler]

The overwhelming body of evidence gathered over the past decade suggests that most, if not all, federal IT acquisition/procurement processes are "make biased" and "take too long, cost too much, and rarely deliver". These waterfall approaches were established during the industrial age, and oriented to complex weapon systems. Examples these ineffective governance models are JCIDS, DODAF, DOD5000 and DHS's MD-102. The IC also uses a derivative of the DOD 5000 approach. The impact is multi-year cycle times and an abysmal 24% success rate in delivering measurable value, costing the tax pay $10s of billions in avoidable waste. With the passage of FITARA, the goal was to improve IT Acquisition, not s/w development, which puts into question why the new TechFAR only focuses on sourcing of s/w development resources and not commercial IT solutions (COTS, Cloud). This needs to be addressed. This is consistent with new EO 13800, IT MGT Act and necessary for lasting IT reforms.
IT-AAC_Agile_IT-Cloud AcquisitionMaturityModel.pdf