Award fees doled out to contractors for meeting timeline and performance standards should be applied to incentivize greater use of open architecture (OA) principles, according to a recently released Pentagon guidebook intended to promote development of OA systems. To get better performance from contractors, federal regulations allow program managers to assess cost, schedule, management and technical attributes in determining award fees. The DoD Open Systems Architecture Contract Guidebook calls for adding OA criteria to the “technical” category by evaluating whether…
Pentagon Examines Award Fees To Promote OA Systems
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