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November 25, 2013 By AMK

House panel targets DoD acquisition reform, but will that be enough?

The House Armed Services Committee is taking another crack at defense acquisition  reform.

Committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) recently tasked Vice Chairman Mac  Thornberry (R-Texas) to head up a new panel looking at ways to reform the defense  acquisition process.

“While this Committee has led successful efforts to improve the way the Department  acquires items and services, there are still significant challenges facing the  defense acquisition system,” McKeon said in a release. “We cannot afford a costly and ineffective  acquisition system, particularly when faced with devastating impacts of repeated  budget cuts and sequestration.”

The announcement came as experts on defense acquisition gave the committee some  guidance on how to proceed. One of the witnesses was Dov Zakheim, former  undersecretary of Defense (comptroller) and now a senior adviser at the Center for  Strategic and International Studies. He says a new approach to defense acquisition  reform has the potential for new results and the old approach won’t work this time  around either.

“The way that we’ve been trying to do it, which is essentially focusing on  specific issues with legislation, addressing them or process improvements is just  not the way to go,” Zakheim told In Depth with Francis Rose. “It  clearly hasn’t worked.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/473/3499160/House-panel-targets-DoD-acquisition-reform-but-will-that-be-enough

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, acquisition workforce, Budget Control Act, Congress, DoD, LPTA, procurement reform

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