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Budget

McFarland: DoD Surveying Industry on ‘Unproductive Processes’ in Acquisition

Mai Hanoon

Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

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The Defense Department is reviewing “unproductive processes and bureaucracy” it has put in place over the years in the hopes of better understanding how that hinders industry as part of its Better Buying Power 2.0 effort, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Katrina McFarland said Tuesday morning at Defense Daily’s Open Architecture Summit. McFarland said that risk in an acquisition program presents a certain added cost, but “there’s a lot of pressures from people on the Hill who over the…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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