Some New Year’s Resolutions For The Pentagon’s Acquisition System -- Def Pro
The decade just ended was a disaster for U.S. defense procurement. Most of the Army’s major development programs were canceled. The Air Force saw its top-of-the-line fighter and future bomber killed while failing to get a new tanker into production for ten straight years. The Navy walked away from two of the three next-generation surface combatants it was planning to buy. And many of the joint networking initiatives begun under the rubric of military transformation bit the dust. In other words, the Pentagon wasted more money on failed warfighting systems over the last ten years than most countries spent on their entire security establishments.
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