Acquisition Support Program - About Us
Purpose | Program Activities | How ASP Can Help | For More Information
Acquisition program managers are challenged not only to grasp practical business concerns, but also to understand topics as diverse as risk identification and mitigation, selection and integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components, process capability, program management, architecture, survivability, interoperability, source selection, and contract monitoring. The SEI has spent almost two decades compiling a body of knowledge and developing solutions for these topics.
The vision of the Acquisition Support Program is to facilitate the rapid establishment of agile teams composed of acquirers, developers, and operators using SEI technologies to provide evolutionary, high-quality, cutting-edge software-intensive capabilities to the war-fighter.
This presentation, Acquisition Support Program Overview, highlights ASP's vision, projects, and guiding principles.
Purpose
The purpose of the Acquisition Support Program is to help Department of Defense (DoD) and other government acquirers make evolutionary and revolutionary improvements in the acquisition of software-intensive systems, and to provide opportunities for SEI programs to create, apply, and amplify new technologies. ASP will create mechanisms to gather, analyze and characterize the state of practice for acquiring software-intensive systems, apply SEI and other technologies and practices to improving the state of practice in acquisition programs, and amplify and transition results to the acquisition community.
Program Activities
The ASP program will
- transition technologies and practices to improve DoD software-intensive
- perform diagnostics such as Independent Technical Assessments (ITAs) and Independent Expert Program Reviews (IEPRs)
- help with RFP preparation
- help with technical evaluations of proposals and deliverables
- collaboratively develop acquisition technologies and practices
- transition technologies and practices to the DoD acquisition community collaborators
- review and advise DoD on acquisition policy related to software-intensive systems
How ASP Can Help
The ASP is a technical program focused on delivery, support, and integration of software-intensive systems acquisition practices to help acquisition program offices. This is a new strategy for the SEI. With the addition of the ASP, the SEI is positioning itself as a facilitator and leader of a community of practice for the acquisition of software-intensive systems.
The ASP will help the acquisition community identify the next wave of technologies. The ASP, in collaboration with the Program Integration Directorate (PID), will build integrated teams of technical experts from across the SEI to apply to acquisition challenge problems focusing on a prioritized set of programs within a strategic impact program established for each service (Army, Navy, and Air Force).
The ASP works closely with all the other SEI programs to provide support to acquisition customers via Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) comprised of members from all of the SEI technical programs and other technical staff (e.g., Visiting Scientists and Affiliates). ASP also provides the technical programs with acquisition expertise in support of their technical initiatives.
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