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U.S. Air Force Exploring Changes to Contract Structures

Friday, November 2nd, 2018

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U.S. Air Force Exploring Changes to Contract Structures

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

Military contract structures are changing; They need to to keep up with the pace of technology. Both government and industry are trying to figure out what the future of those contracts needs to look like as everyone tries to match the “speed of relevance” goal set by Defense Secretary James Mattis.“We can’t do software the way we’ve been doing it the past 40 years,” said Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon [RTN], which has started…

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