By Geoff Fein As the rate of technology improvement shortens the time between advances in areas such as processing speed, the services are going to have to rethink the way they handle IT acquisition to pace those changes, according to a Navy official. Will a new way be needed to procure information technology (IT)? "Yes, but with a caveat," Robert Carey, the Navy's chief information officer, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. "The FAR and DoD 5000 series give…
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