Four recommendations for contractors in response to the president’s FY 2022 discretionary budget request Deniece Peterson, GovWin from Deltek 2 hours ago Some of the key priority areas in President Joe Biden s FY22 budget request include climate change, healthcare, equity in business, R&D and IT. (SARINYAPINNGAM) On Friday, April 9, the Office of Management and Budget released the Biden administration’s initial fiscal year (FY) 2022 Discretionary Budget Request. The new administration’s initial budget proposal includes a total of $1.5 trillion in top-line discretionary budget requests for federal departments and agencies, plus the administration’s policy and budget priorities in broad strokes. Some of those key priority areas include climate change, healthcare, equity in business, R&D and IT.
Partnered Operations in SOF Acquisition SPECIAL OPERATIONS
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It’s a simple enough principle we are better when we work together with a diverse set of partners to provide the capabilities required to enable Special Operations Forces. SOF acquisition strives to mirror the competencies of the operators we support. While they excel at partnering in the operational domain, we need to excel at partnering in the acquisition domain.
Partnering with industry and academia whether small or large businesses, commercial or defense members of the industrial base and drawing upon broader perspectives and new ideas, is essential to competing against different and more capable adversaries. Like the command we support, the strength of SOF acquisition is partnered operations. But sometimes we fall short.
Until recently, small or non-traditional defense companies had very few opportunities to win lucrative Department of Defense (DoD) contracts. However, through a change in their contract award approach and the embrace of Open Source Software (OSS) as a strategic accelerator for new and innovative solutions, the DoD has opened the door to many smaller and midsize companies to actively contribute.
OSS opens the door for any development company to create unique and valuable applications in a relatively short amount of time. This allows them to focus on their differentiators, while not spending massive amounts of resources in building out the basic building blocks that are the table stakes but are not closing the deal.
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Early signs suggest federal agencies may be on the cusp of a significant leap forward.
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Generally speaking, the governing team being assembled by the Biden administration has been marked by calm competence and a lack of major controversy. There are always appointments that spark debate, but overall, the transition has been relatively free of drama. At the same time, we are witnessing another less-noticed but significant transition that might be called the accession of the digital transformers.
Over the last 25 years, each successive administration has taken “e-government” and technology to the next logical level beyond that achieved by its predecessor. The progress has been consistent and almost entirely non-partisan. But it has never moved fast enough to keep pace with the world in which government must operate, let alone the marketplace on which it so depends. While it is too soon to say for certain
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