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Publish Date : 13-Jun-2015

A leader of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has officially urged the agency's procurement workforce to use more agile methods of procurement.

In an open letter to NGA's staff, Deputy Director Susan Gordon said the NGA Acquisition Regulation Implementation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation's execution had become somewhat hidebound, although they have more flexibility than they receive credit for.

She said, "Sometimes, opportunities associated with these flexibilities are lost or, worse, ignored due to our agency's misinterpretation, reliance on past practices, or competing priorities (i.e., the drive for contract consolidations to ease workload or centralize management)."

As a solution, Gordon echoed the mantra of agencies, like the General Services Administration, that promote the use of agile techniques and templates embodied in the Office of Management and Budget's TechFAR Handbook and Digital Services Playbook.

Both documents underscore flexibilities in the rules that allow acquisition agility.

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