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Air Force Wants To Reduce Requirements, Speed Up Acquisition Process

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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Air Force Wants To Reduce Requirements, Speed Up Acquisition Process

A panel of Air Force acquisition experts at an Air Force Association Air Space & Cyber conference. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Air Force is looking to embrace a risk-based approach to its procurements by reducing the number of requirements so it can speed up its rigid acquisition processes, which remain too slow at getting capabilities out to its airmen.“We’ve got a lot of requirements out there, we don’t have enough budget to fund all of those, so we’re trying to make the best in the priority of choices,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Jerry Harris Jr., chief of Strategic…

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