The USDS's Mina Hsiang wants you to make government tech better
The USDS, basically the White House tech consultancy, wants Big Tech’s best minds to spend a few months helping make the government better for everyone.
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The USDS, basically the White House tech consultancy, wants Big Tech’s best minds to spend a few months helping make the government better for everyone.
Today, just nine of the Army’s 540 acquisition programs use the streamlined Software Pathway, but senior officials told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview they aim to "exponentially" increase that number by the end of next year.
Traditional requirements documentation for software-intensive military systems (e.g., command and control; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting; and information operations) are insufficient, especially when the usual method of requirements decomposition and analysis takes years. The new Department of Defense (DoD) Software Acquisition Pathway, thankfully, affords most new software systems a ‘pass’ on the traditional requirements definition process (defined through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System), possibly accelerating this process. If their ...