The Portfolio Manager Is New and It Changes How Software Vendors Must Scale Inside DoW

This post is Part Two of a Marion Square blog series examining the Department of War’s shift to the Warfighting Acquisition System and what it means for commercial technology vendors.

The new acquisition strategy responds to this reality by introducing something DoW did not previously have in a formal, empowered way: portfolio level ownership of digital and software capabilities.

That is where the new Portfolio Manager role comes in.