Over the next three years, the U.S. Air Force plans to recompete some software application contracts for U.S. Strategic Command's (STRATCOM) future Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES). The latter is to use flexible funding--so-called "colorless" money--that the Air Force may shift between research and development and procurement accounts, for example. The Aerospace Industries Association has advocated a similar, flexible funding approach for DoD's Joint All Domain Command and Control architecture. SMPES is a follow-on to Increment 5 of…
