By Emelie Rutherford As the Pentagon grapples with congressional resistance to reprogramming funding in its coffers, a top defense official said yesterday he is working to make more formal processes for rapidly buying equipment and services for troops in Afghanistan. Defense acquisition chief Ashton Carter told a wartime-contracting commission yesterday that he unavoidably must work around the Pentagon's Planning Programming Budgeting System--which he said was "designed to prepare for war, not to wage war"--for war acquisitions. He said the current…
Carter Establishing More Formal System For Speedy War Acquisitions
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