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The Defense Department is out with its first department-wide intellectual property strategy. The instruction, released last week, leaves a lot of details still to be addressed. But among other things, it aims to build intellectual property expertise throughout the acquisition workforce, mandates that every acquisition program start its life with an intellectual property strategy, and builds a centralized \u201ccadre\u201d of experts to help program managers with IP issues. Alan Chvotkin is executive vice president at the Professional Services Council. He talked with the show about the new IP strategy and how it will impact contractors. \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices