The Office of Acquisition Enablers (AE) is a new organization within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment. The office is the lead for enabling innovative acquisition approaches that deliver warfighting capability at the speed of relevance. Our priority is to support the development of data-driven decision making, through our initiatives such as implementing the Adaptive Acquisition Framework and providing acquisition data governance, access, and analytics. Read about our current Initiatives.
The Adaptive Acquisition Framework is the most transformational change to acquisition policy in decades, diversifying the traditional process into six tailorable pathways: Urgent Capability, Middle Tier of Acquisition, Major Capability Acquisition, Software Acquisition, Defense Business Systems, and Acquisition of Services.
In October, in DAU’s “Let’s Talk Agile” series, Mr. Sean Brady discussed new changes to the Department’s approach to Software acquisition: promoting and streamlining the adoption of Agile, Lean, DevSecOps, and human-centered design practices within defense acquisition.
In February 2021 as part of DAU South Region’s Annual Acquisition Update, Mr. Cadman gave an overview of the AAF, covering tailored solutions, current policy and guidance on DAU, and next steps for 2021 defense acquisition policy.
The Acquisition Enablers organization may be new, but our divisions have been providing leadership in acquisition policy, data collection, and analytics for years.
See our Organization Chart to get a sense of where Acquisition Enablers fits in the Acquisition and Sustainment group and the divisions within AE that work together to accomplish our mission.
The Acquisition Enablers organization may be new, but our divisions have been providing leadership in acquisition policy, data collection, and analytics for years. See our Organization Chart to get a sense of where Acquisition Enablers fits in the Acquisition and Sustainment group and the divisions within AE that work together to accomplish our mission.
DAVE, the Defense Acquisition Visibility Environment, is a centralized hub that provides convenient access to acquisition data across several disparate data repositories, including DAMIR, AIR, ADS, and more.
The EVM-CR is DoD’s authoritative source for Earned Value Management (EVM) data. This cost and schedule data provides program execution insight for PMOs, Services, OSD, and DoD Components.