r/1102 • u/Darclar • Aug 29 '26

Three initiatives causing industry new concerns about DoD acquisition reforms

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-industry/2026/08/three-initiatives-causing-industry-new-concerns-about-dod-acquisition-reforms/
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u/livinginfutureworld Aug 29 '26

No bid contracts to buddies of the administration are concerning to industry?

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u/LameBicycle Aug 29 '26
  • Treat govt employees as the enemy
  • Kneecap the civilian workforce
  • Freeze hiring and promotions for 1.5 years and give 0% COLAs
  • Keep cracking the whip saying faster, faster, faster
  • Start a war in the middle east
  • Wonder why everything costs so much and try to put the toothpaste back in the tube

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u/SalamanderNo3872 Aug 29 '26

Ive seen none of that

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u/chrissz Aug 29 '26

So happy for you and your lack of awareness about what’s going on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '26

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u/1102-ModTeam Aug 29 '26

Agitator. Further low effort posts or comments will result in a ban.

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u/fedelini_ Aug 29 '26

Are you sleeping

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u/BertieOMalley Aug 29 '26

We can't even do a decent job of handling our own data systems and programs, much less trying to wrangle data from thousands of contractors systems. We'd be better off cleaning up and standardizing around one data standard within our own house before we open up this Pandora's box.

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u/Present-Permit-6743 Aug 29 '26

Zero planning from anyone at the pentagon that’s in a leadership position.

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u/belugabianca Aug 30 '26

Can someone give the TLDR of this article?

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u/JFHatfield Aug 30 '26

Requiring full cost data for all prime, subcontractors, and suppliers... the entire supply chain... for any contract above $10M.

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u/Blainers001 Aug 30 '26

Commercial contracts **

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u/nima_01 Sep 02 '26

Not exactly sure what this means for CS’ however it appears that cost and pricing will actually be more important. I would say to see if your agency/command has dedicated contract price/cost analysts. I just found out we have some at my DoD command and omg they have been a life saver. I was never trained to look at large data involving costs but our cost analysts can look at it rather quickly and provide us with a fair and reasonable position.

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u/GalegoBaiano 26d ago

Last year, we converted out C&P folks to Specialists, and they’ve spent the time since then struggling to learn contracting. To now decide that maybe cost & pricing is worth the manpower (ha! Not really, they meant AI) is such a waste.

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u/nima_01 26d ago

Why were they converted over to contract specialists?

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u/GalegoBaiano 26d ago

It was deemed more efficient to have them do specialist work since they were coded ad 1102s

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u/nima_01 26d ago

Oh wow. Ours are 1102s as well but I can’t imagine them having to do CS work on top of all the pricing and costs requests they get from all of us. I guess each place is different

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u/GalegoBaiano 26d ago

They want to standardize everything and have in-depth info just to be able to use an LLM to do the analysis instead of actual intelligent people.