One of the best questions that came up at the recent 2019 Imagine Nation ELC conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was during a panel on acquisition. It went something like this: If the Federal Acquisition Regulations are a Frankenstein monster of cobbled together rules and requirements, why not just start over?
A question many federal acquisition and program managers probably have asked themselves at least a dozen times a year.
REI Systems, Gissa Sateri, is part of a team from OFPP and ACT-IAC that are trying to reduce the friction of acquisition through a new Periodic Table of Acquisition Elements.
