DISA looks to ramp up capability acquisition, delivery speed

DISA looks to ramp up capability acquisition, delivery speed

TOWSON, Md. — In light of renewed calls for procurement reforms across the Pentagon, the Defense Information Systems Agency is reworking how it rapidly buys and fields “functionally relevant capabilities,” according to the agency’s director. “Functionally relevant capability means that I do not hand [Adm. Samuel Paparo, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command commander] a widget, but rather a fully integrated system-of-systems that solves a meaningful problem…