{"id":68175,"date":"2024-08-20T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/20\/army-tweaking-major-software-effort-to-be-more-commercial-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:11:49","slug":"army-tweaking-major-software-effort-to-be-more-commercial-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2024\/08\/20\/army-tweaking-major-software-effort-to-be-more-commercial-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Army tweaking major software effort to be more commercial friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is reevaluating its workforce requirements and contract strategies for a major software modernization effort to make it easier for commercial vendors to bid for Defense Department projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service in February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2024\/03\/09\/software-revamp-aims-to-align-us-army-with-industry-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\">released its latest software policy<\/a>, laying out its plan for managing and developing software as part of a broader digital modernization push. Months later, in May, it unveiled plans to award more than $1 billion in software development contracts over the next decade, posting a special notice <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/449f97f1ae854f138206fccaaee725c1\/view\" target=\"_blank\">and a draft solicitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the announcement, some commercial firms expressed concern that the Army\u2019s contracting strategy for the effort may not work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2024\/01\/11\/kitz-eyes-commercial-software-to-coordinate-us-army-firepower\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-traditional or smaller companies<\/a> backed by venture capital firms that favor fixed-price deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on a panel this summer at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of defense software company Govini, said the Army\u2019s approach represents a disconnect between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/2023\/12\/04\/pentagons-commercial-tech-arm-to-ramp-up-role-in-military-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">innovation incubators like the Defense Innovation Unit<\/a> and the Pentagon\u2019s more traditional acquisition offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo venture capital-backed company that DIU and every other part of DOD has worked so hard to get into the system, none of our companies can bid on that,\u201d Dougherty said in July. \u201cUntil we get the parts of the department who actually put the billion dollar, 10-year contracts into place to understand what it means to work with companies like ours, this isn\u2019t going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Army official said Tuesday at AFCEA\u2019s TechNet conference in Augusta, Georgia, that in response to feedback from non-traditional firms, the service is working to clarify and in some cases rethink the way it buys software through this new contract vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, said that while the service isn\u2019t likely to awarded fixed-price contracts for software development projects, it\u2019s looking for other flexible contracting mechanisms that could allow it to work with more commercial firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to make sure that non-traditionals, smalls [and] others without certified cost accounting systems have the opportunity to compete,\u201d she said during a panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, Swanson added, the Army\u2019s contracting command is considering allowing industry to recommend a contract type that best suits their bid rather than defining that up front in its solicitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf your solution is the one that\u2019s chosen, then that\u2019s the contract type that we use,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re really trying to break a lot of previous rules that we followed in terms of how we\u2019re approaching this and opening up the aperture so that we can cover all bases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another concern non-traditional firms have shared with the Army about the draft software modernization solicitation involves its workforce requirements. 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