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Encouraging Signs Set Performance Bar High For Lame Duck Acquisition Chief

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By Jen DiMascio In about 14 months when a new president takes office, John Young, the newly confirmed under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics will in all likelihood be looking for another job. In the time he has left, Young is still looking to make changes to an acquisition system riddled with problems. There are billions of dollars in cost overruns, missed deadlines, a mounting number of contract award protests and the shadow of scandal from an…

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