Pentagon's budgeting system has people seeing colors

Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 4:51 p.m.

b"As the Pentagon tries to move more and more toward modern software development practices, it\\u2019s become clear, the DoD\\xa0budgeting system is a bad fit because of\\xa0its various colors of money. Does that agile development program count as procurement? R&D? operations and maintenance?\\xa0Congress has given a handful of programs permission to experiment with using just one color of money for software. One of them is the Navy\\u2019s Maritime Tactical Command and Control system. For the difference that's made, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the program manager for Navy command and control systems, Capt. David Gast.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"