Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations: A Roadmap to the Section 809 Panel Reports

Abstract

The Section 809 Panel has proposed 98 recommendations, some with multiple subrecommendations, which collectively provide a strategy for moving defense acquisition into the 21st century. Although released in four separate publications, these recommendations are not designed to be implemented piecemeal. All of the panel's recommendations work in concert to support the concept of adapting at the speed of a changing world. This Roadmap to the Section 809 Panel's Reports organizes the recommendations thematically around four concepts, demonstrating how suggested changes to acquisition practices can produce each of these core outcomes.