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Navy Establishing Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office as Acquisition Fast Track

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

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Navy Establishing Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office as Acquisition Fast Track

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson, the 31st CNO. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy is in the midst of standing up its acquisition “speed lane,” called the Maritime Accelerated Capabilities Office, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said March 10.Based on the Air Force’s rapid capabilities office, MACO will compress the current acquisition timeline, allowing mature technologies to move more quickly into the hands of sailors without getting hampered by the bureaucratic chokepoints common in the weapons buying process, he said during the McAleese and Associates’ FY2017 Defense Programs Conference. “It’s…

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