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DoD’s Lord Wants a Rewrite of Section 5000 Acquisition Rules in 2019

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, December 17th, 2018

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DoD’s Lord Wants a Rewrite of Section 5000 Acquisition Rules in 2019

The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

The Pentagon’s top acquisition leader has an ambitious goal for 2019: to rewrite the department’s list of major procurement system rules known as Section 5000.02.The goal is to allow program managers and contracting officers to have more “creative compliance” when it comes to developing their contracts to build a speedier, more flexible process, Ellen Lord, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, said in a Dec. 17 media roundtable at the Pentagon.“We have right now this huge, complicated acquisition…

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