Encourage you to take a look at a blog post this morning from my DAU Acquisition/Program Management Center counterpart entitled “DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework Tool Deployed”. In it, he announced that “DAU has just deployed a new interactive DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) Tool that provides links to the latest policy on multiple acquisition pathways to include:

• Urgent Operational Needs
• Middle-Tier Acquisition (Rapid Prototyping/Fielding)
• Tailored traditional acquisition (DoD Instruction 5000.02)
• Acquisition of Services (DoD Instruction 5000.74)
• Defense Business Systems (DoD Instruction 5000.75)

A path selection flowchart is also linked to this AAF chart to help you in determining which path to pursue!”

Check it out!