The Department of Defense should shift its procurement programs from a heavy emphasis on containing costs, and stress instead maintaining schedules, a new report states. Costs have risen, and schedules have slipped, on many acquisition programs as the defense industry has seen consolidation into monopolies and oligarchies over the past two decades, and as threats facing the nation and new weapons systems have become more complex, according to the report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a defense-oriented…
Defense Acquisitions Should Focus On Meeting Schedules, Rather Than On Containing Costs: Industrial Base Is Healthy
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