For those of us with Pentagon and defense acquisition experience, the programmatic fight begins long before a system or its operators hit the battlefield.
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The defense acquisition process in itself is notoriously burdensome and costly, often driving the costs and time to deployment of weapon systems up exponentially.
The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
Outgoing defense acquisition chief Ashton Carter spent much of the year assuring industry that efficiency would not be achieved by slashing profits, but in fact that is precisely what is happening as new program guidance is issued to bureaucrats and contract terms are revised.
The Center for Security Policy welcomed the Defense Acquisition Board's long-awaited decision Wednesday to approve full-rate production of the V-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps-Special Operations hybrid helicopter-airplane that will support the sorts of missions the United States military will have to undertake in the 21st Century.
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In an Acquisition Decision Memorandum, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics E.
Larry Welch, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Robert Costello, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Larry Korb, and ACDA Director Ron Lehman.
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Frank Kendall III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, vice Ashton B.
"It's something that we clearly have a need for in Afghanistan, and they're on their way over there, " said Pete Aldridge, undersecretary of defense for acquisition.
Jeremiah reported in a 14 June memo to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition that the Council had, in effect, acted with extreme prejudice on the idea of restoring the V-22 as a joint program.
Richard Ginman is Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) at the Department of Defense, a position he has held since June 2011.
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Democrats voted to slash missile defense funds and building new roadblocks to swift acquisition of such defenses.
Perhaps even more troubling was the encouragement the Clinton team gave to foreign acquisition of U.S. defense contractors.
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The problem that forward thinkers on cyber security like Kendall, Alexander, and former deputy defense secretary Bill Lynn face is that the existing information grid and acquisition system have spawned constituencies with deep roots in the political system.
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In any other context, the company would be viewed as ripe for acquisition, but its JVs make for a more effective takeover defense than even the best poison pills ever devised.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will try once again to persuade Congress to stop further acquisition of the nation's only long-range, heavy airlifter, the C-17.
That is uniquely true of the U.S. Department of Defense, where it is typical to find some of the most senior positions in the weapons acquisition system populated by people who have little understanding of new technologies or business processes.
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