The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
However, with all these statements, the recurring comment is that this program is impossible to do within the existing procurement system.
Polish ministers say they have at last woken up to the need to move faster, sort out their creaking public-procurement system and generally play the EU game.
My question is, one of the things that I have experienced over the last four years as a small business trying to do business in the federal procurement business, essentially, as a small engineering company, is the challenge of the bundling of contracts, which has made it increasingly difficult for service-disabled businesses -- all small businesses across the nation -- to compete basically within the federal procurement system.
Soviet procurement and distribution system and even less reached store shelves.
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The Center believes that the B-2 constitutes an ever more important national asset and it recommends that procurement and deployment of this system proceed at the fastest possible pace.
Data silos evolved from a system-centric IT procurement policy and an almost reflexive reliance on relational database technology.
With traditional IT models, a decision to prototype a new system generally involves the procurement and installation of expensive hardware, with the associated checks and delays that conventional purchasing requires.
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For instance, Jason Sherman of InsideDefense.com notes that the same 2011 law directing creation of a streamlined system for developing cyber solutions also included safeguards to assure procurement rules were not bypassed.
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The White House expects a major battle with lawmakers from both parties over Defense Secretary Robert Gates's effort to overhaul defense-procurement policies and cut short production on the F-22 advanced fighter jet and the Army's Future Combat System.
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