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Army

DARPA’s FANG Effort To Revolutionize Military Acquisition Begins

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants innovative individuals and companies to add their abilities to traditional defense industry to help the agency reform how the Defense Department designs and produces complex military systems. The goal is to use on line tools, processes and collaboration to compress development time by a factor of at least five, while increasing the nation’s pool of innovation by several factors of 10, said Army Lt. Col. Nathan Wiedenman, program manager of the Adaptive…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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