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Experts Tout ‘Speed and Schedule’ as Priorities for Acquisition Reform

  • April 25, 2016
  • Otto Kreisher, Special Correspondent
  • Seapower

…Kate Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, made a similar argument, noting that the acquisition reform language in the House Armed Services Committee’s draft National Defense Authorization “is not really about cost. … It’s really about time, being faster in bringing things on line.”… And, Blakeley added, a major cause for slow procurement is that “Congress tends to micromanage.”

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