As the Army continues to improve its management of service acquisitions, the acquisition team will focus on the importance of developing and maintaining sound acquisition strategies to ensure services are properly planned, based upon clear, performance-based requirements and acquired by sound business practices. The acquisition strategy developed will be flexible and provide rapid delivery of affordable capability to meet the Army mission and customer expectations. Section 2330 of Title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 812 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Pub. L. No. 109-163), requires the establishment and implementation of a management structure for the acquisition of services in the Department of Defense (DoD). (The DoD policy implements the statute and replaces the Acquisition of Services policy issued on May 31, 2002, and the Acquisition of Services Policy stated in Enclosure 8 to DoD Instruction 5000.2 dated May 12, 2003). Priorities established by senior functional principals shall ensure accountability and maximize credibility in cost, schedule, and performance as required by the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) (USD(AT&L)) guidance on Acquisition of Services. (See USD(AT&L) memorandum, subject: Acquisition of Services Policy, dated October 2, 2006.)
This policy and other complementary guidance are intended to strengthen DoD management of the acquisition of services at both the strategic and tactical level, and shall be included in the next revision of Army Regulation (AR) 70-1 and DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2. The implementation of this is not intended to impede the timely acquisition of services in emergency situations.
This policy supersedes AFARS Revision #10, dated April 30, 2004 and AFARS Revision #19, dated May 23, 2006 to 5137.5.
[AFARS Revision #20, dated March 22, 2007]
