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Acquisition Responsibility Should Be Kept Within OSD, Former Top Pentagon Official Says

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

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Acquisition Responsibility Should Be Kept Within OSD, Former Top Pentagon Official Says

A cornerstone of the Senate’s acquisition reform legislation—taking away acquisition responsibility from the Office of Secretary of Defense and placing it with the service chiefs—could end up compounding problems with cost growth, a former top Pentagon official said today.Both the House and Senate defense authorization bills contain many good changes to acquisition policy, said Christine Fox, who formerly held positions in the Defense Department including the acting deputy defense secretary and director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE). However,…

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