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May 29, 2013 By AMK

Pentagon: Acquisition reform key to strategic choices review

Improving the acquisition of weapons systems and platforms through cost-conscious strategies and more effective prototyping is a key part of the Defense Department’s ongoing Strategic Choices Review, Pentagon leaders told an audience May 23 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.

“Secretary Hagel asked me, working with Chairman Dempsey, to conduct a strategic choices and management review, to examine the choices that underlie our defense strategy, posture and investments, including all past assumptions and systems,” Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told the audience. “Everything’s on the table: roles and missions, war planning, business practices, force structure, personnel and compensation, acquisition and modernization investment, how we operate, how we measure and maintain readiness.”

Carter mentioned the ongoing review, designed to assess Pentagon strategy in light of recent developments within the Pentagon’s Better Buying Power program — an acquisition-focused effort unveiled in 2010 to save money,  improve efficiency, incentivize industry, increase competition, and maximize productivity.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/05/24/pentagon-acquisition-reform-key-to-strategic-choices-review/ 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, Better Buying Power, cost, cost overrun, DoD, lowesr price technically acceptable, LPTA, procurement reform, technology

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