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USAF Takes Up Acquisition Overhaul Ahead of KC-X Competition Relaunch

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Friday, May 29th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic Air Force leaders have drafted a plan to rebuild the service's acquisition process in hopes of avoiding the kind of high-profile weapons-buying debacles that have embarrassed the Pentagon in recent years. "The acquisition improvement plan is the first time the Air Force has taken a big-picture look...at its acquisition approach," Robert Pollock, the director of the acquisition process office in the Air Force, told Defense Daily. "In the past we've attempted to change how we do acquisition…

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