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Navy/USMC

Streamlining Acquisition Is Working, Unmanned Navy Official Says

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018

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Streamlining Acquisition Is Working, Unmanned Navy Official Says

The Echo Voyager unmanned undersea vehicle, the basis for the design of the Navy's Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV). (Photo: Boeing)

The deputy program manager for the Navy’s unmanned maritime systems program office said the service is streamlining and quickening acquisition as the service acquisitions chief's strategy of pushing responsibilities down is working well.Howard Berkof, deputy program manager of PMS-406, within program Executive Office (PEO) USC, told Defense Daily in an interview in late June that accelerated acquisition is having a positive effect, but it can also be called doing acquisition smarter and better.It is not just accelerated but “doing it…

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