It May Be Time For Companies To Reconsider DOD Contracts

By Eric Aaserud and Julia Fox (July 6, 2018, 1:03 PM EDT) -- In the last decade or so, the U.S. Department of Defense has been, in the words of the Section 809 Panel, an "unattractive customer to large and small firms with innovative, state-of-the-art solutions."[1] Among other things, the department has imposed a growing list of new obligations on commercial item contractors and subcontractors; watched as large numbers of its acquisition personnel have left the workforce; taken longer and longer in its purchases of innovative technology; and sought greater intellectual property rights at the expense of government contractors....

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