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Army Aiming To Dramatically Reduce Requirements Process For New Weapons

Friday, December 8th, 2017

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Army Aiming To Dramatically Reduce Requirements Process For New Weapons

Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper.

The newly confirmed Army secretary is determined to shorten the time it takes to develop and field new technologies to soldiers.Mark Esper intends to shrink the time it takes to develop requirements for a weapon system from an average five years to just 12 months, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee Dec. 7.“The Army is executing eight directives intended to improve our capability and material development process by refining how we generate requirements, improving how we educate the acquisition…

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