Contracts, Code, and Combat

Decoding the Legal Quagmires that Leave Our Warfighters Nauseated from Poorly-Designed Software

Contracts, Code, and Combat: Decoding the Legal Quagmires that Leave Our Warfighters Nauseated from Poorly-Designed Software" exposes a glaring oversight in Department of Defense software contracts: the habitual neglect of User Acceptance Testing metrics. This absence turns each software rollout into a high-stakes gamble, jeopardizing both user experience and mission outcomes. But it doesn't have to be this way. The paper not only identifies this contractual blind spot as a serious, yet easily avoidable, national security risk but also lays out a straightforward path for integrating UAT metrics to dramatically improve software utility and warfighter effectiveness.