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The State of Defense Acquisition on the Cusp of a New Administration

Posted: January 3rd, 2017

By Jesse Ellman

Jesse Ellman is an associate fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. He specializes in U.S. defense acquisition policy, with a particular focus on services and research and development contracting trends at the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security; U.S. defense industrial base policy; and recent U.S. Army modernization efforts.

As 2017 begins, it is worth reflecting on the current state  and future direction of Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition. Contract data from the Federal Procurement Data System provides a robust picture of where DoD acquisition has been, while the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) makes dramatic changes to the structure of the defense acquisition system that will shape the direction of DoD acquisition efforts going forward.

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