GAO reports on defense contracting and the need to enhance competition.
Within the report it highlights on how, "DOD's focus on using open systems architecture and acquiring sufficient data rights—which DOD's Better Buying Power memo encourages—is influencing the way DOD acquires goods and services. Programs are trying to move away from dependency upon single suppliers for parts, maintenance or upgrades and are moving toward open systems architecture, which allows components to be modified, replaced or maintained by multiple suppliers (GAO)."
