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Homeland Security

Coast Guard Issues New Version Of Strategic Acquisition Plan

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, May 23rd, 2014

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Coast Guard Issues New Version Of Strategic Acquisition Plan

Artist rendering of Offshore Patrol Cutter. Source: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard’s acquisition directorate on Friday released an updated version of its strategic plan aimed at sustaining progress it has made in improving its acquisition processes and outcomes and continuing a drive toward performance management. The Strategic Plan: Blueprint for Sustained Excellence outlines three goals and accompanying objectives for each. The goals include unifying the efforts throughout the acquisition directorate to achieve mission execution, maintaining a top notch acquisition workforce, and “delivering essential capabilities within established cost, schedule and…

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