Technology Readiness Assessment Guide: GAO-16-410G August 2016

GAO-16-410G August 2016 Managing complex Information Technology (IT) acquisitions has been a long-standing challenge for federal agencies. Many of the government's most costly and complex acquisition efforts require the development of cutting-edge technologies and their integration into large and complex systems. Such acquisition efforts use existing technologies, but in new applications or environments. Anyone that has worked in IT knows that the technology (both hardware and software) evo...