This section provides an area for various published documents that while not standards or reports provide guidance that is relevant to MBE. 

Here are some examples:

Another resource contained in this website is how MBE and MIL-STD-31000A relate to the goals of Better Buying Power 2.0. Through the focus on the updated TDP, a dividend is achieved when the best practices of MIL-STD-31000A are applied to the mandates of BBP 2.0, which are to strengthen DOD’s buying power, improve industry productivity, and provide an affordable, value-added military capability to the warfighter.

To view the article entitled “Using MIL-STD-31000A to Support Better Buying Power 2.0” published in the October 2013 issue of Contract Management Magazine

For a link to the Better Buying Power 2.0 memorandum and please click here

Interim Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02 was issued on November 25, 2013.  It states that “The Acquisition Strategy will address how program management will create and sustain a competitive environment, from program inception through sustainment.  Strategies to be considered include:  competitive prototyping, dual sourcing, open systems architecture that enable competition for upgrades, acquisition of complete technical data packages, and competition at the subsystem level.”

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