A new acquisition guidebook published by the Pentagon this month seeks to break vendor lock and ensure the government has greater control of data rights to more effectively build open architecture systems, hold competitions and drive down costs. The DoD Open Systems Architecture Contract Guidebook for Program Managers faults vendor lock for leaving the government dependent on a single supplier for a product and essentially creating a monopoly. To avoid this scenario, program managers need to gain control of the data so it…
Pentagon Takes Aim At Vendor Lock, Data Rights
Defense Daily Staff
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