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Kendall: Better Buying Power Helped Make Some, But Not Enough, Progress on Interoperability

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

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Kendall: Better Buying Power Helped Make Some, But Not Enough, Progress on Interoperability

Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said Tuesday that, for all the talk of open systems and interoperability coming out of the Defense Department in recent years, he hasn’t seen the attention translate into programmatic changes. Kendall noted that many systems coming through now are inherited from program managers a few years ago. But still, “we have been stressing open systems and effective management of intellectual property ever since we started the first round of Better Buying Power.” Though some progress…

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