> The Department must follow an "Adopt, Buy, Create" approach to software, preferentially adopting existing government or OSS solutions before buying proprietar

> The Department must follow an "Adopt, Buy, Create" approach to software, preferentially adopting existing government or OSS solutions before buying proprietary offerings, and only creating new non-commercial software when no off-the-shelf solutions are adequate. This explains why software sucks so much in some places (e.g. payroll) there - because when the only software available is bad proprietary software (you only get good software for some specific fields, like email, but bad software exists for every conceivable need), the DoD prefers to spend extravagant amounts of taxpayer money on purchasing that existing solution over developing their own.