By Marina Malenic The Defense Department must insist on greater management flexibility in weapons procurement and do a better job recruiting the right people for the job, but the department's acquisition system is not "totally broken," outgoing chief arms buyer John Young said earlier this week. "People run programs, not documents and not processes," Young said. "We've got to run more like a business." He was speaking to reporters at the Pentagon just before his successor, Ashton Carter, was sworn…
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