Terry Raney, Section 809 Panel commissioner, discusses the panel’s final findings, and key changes that need to be made to defense acquisition regulations.
Stan Soloway, President and CEO of Celero Strategies, discusses the issues involved in bringing commercial tech to government, and why it’s not strictly a procurement problem.
Katharina McFarland, director at SAIC, discusses how to build a better acquisition workforce, and how to get out of the ‘checklist mentality.’
Chris Hamm, director of GSA FEDSIM, discusses the Commercial Solutions Opening program, and how it could makes buying high tech solutions easier across government.
Shelby Oakley, director of contracting & national security acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office, discusses acquisition reform efforts at the Department of Defense.
Peter Levine, senior research fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses, discusses building a new kind of procurement workforce, and why it requires a combination of military and civil service career planning.
