5 Essential Questions for Implementing the Software Acquisition Pathway and the Tools to Tackle Them

<p dir="ltr">The release of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s March 6 memo, Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality, launched a new imperative that programs must increase and accelerate their adoption of the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) as the preferred path for software acquisition. The March 2025 memo aims to scale up SWP successes across the entire Defense Department to speed, streamline, and secure the development and delivery of software-driven mission capabilities, from the back office to the front lines. As we outline in this post, this focus on the SWP has been the catalyst behind our efforts to develop a new collection of tools to help DoD programs adapt their acquisition practices to accelerate software delivery.</p>