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DoD Considering Multi-Year Approach To Commercial SATCOM Acquisition

Monday, April 15th, 2013

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The Defense Department is considering multi-year approaches to acquiring commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) services, according to the Pentagon’s information technology (IT) czar. DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Teri Takai told the House Armed Services intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee March 13 the Pentagon is putting together a “cost recovery model” that takes into account multi-year acquisition. DoD spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Damien Pickart recently described a cost recovery model as a “deterministic, proactive” process part of DoD’s annual…

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