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Combatant Commands Still See JCIDS As Inefficient, Unresponsive

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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

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While the Joint Staff has taken great strides toward getting the combatant commands more involved in the requirements process, the mechanism that turns those requests from the field into actual capabilities continues to lag behind those integration efforts, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. Two years after Congress mandated that the Joint Staff’s Joint Requirements Oversight Council increasingly “seek and consider input” from field commanders to help the Pentagon close critical capability gaps, key vulnerabilities persist in…

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