The project has created a joint industry-government task force to define architecture and requirements using a spiral development cycle of technology review and acquisition over the period between 1996 and 2000.
Modular software is the key to modular contracting.
In anticipation of this Act, or as a result of the institutional needs and market realities that led to the Act, various federal departments have already assigned CIOs and tasked them to create architectures. Creating Strategic Technology Models Modular acquisition will foster better, more timely procurements consistent with rapidly evolving user needs and commercial product cycles. But modular acquisition must be framed around a modular architecture, something most federal agencies have not addressed. Architectures based on interoperable modules with open interfaces are the way to achieve an orderly, modular acquisition process not only throughout the Federal government, but also in state agencies, municipalities and large corporations. Standards-based interfaces are the glue that holds a modular information architecture together.