The report DHS filed with the Government Accountability Office said pulling the contract "is the only viable option to address the many issues that DHS has identified as problems with the requirement and the record."
New requirements from the Office of Management and Budget, together with a stronger push towards agile, are driving new approaches to decision making around IT initiatives.
The numbers can appear staggering when waterfall and agile projects are all calculated together in reports such as the Federal IT Dashboard, resulting in an unclear picture of actual delivery times.
The recent proliferation of agile blanket purchase agreements in the federal space raises questions about the cost efficiency of awarding many separate agile contracts.
Acting U.S. Chief Information Officer Lisa Schlosser discusses the impact of Agile on federal government IT projects with Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller.