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December 3, 2013 By AMK

Carter: Pentagon’s Acquisition System Still Not ‘Responsive’

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter is on his way out the door in two weeks. In 2009, he took over as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and led that office until 2011 when was nominated as the Pentagon’s No. 2.

He’s been in charge of overseeing major changes to the Defense Department’s acquisition process as former Defense Secretary Robert Gates as well as his successors leaned on Carter to pare down the budgets and help cut bloated weapons programs.

Just days before Carter is scheduled to leave his post at the Pentagon, Carter made a not all too surprising, but jarring comment in a Nov. 29, 2013 interview with the Wall Street Journal:

“We have to have a military that is agile in a modern world where technology is changing so fast,” Carter told the Wall Street Journal. “The Pentagon’s way of doing business simply isn’t responsive.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/11/30/carter-pentagons-acquisition-system-still-not-responsive/ 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, acquisition strategy, AT&L, budget cuts, DoD, information technology, procurement reform, technology

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