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Enhance Service Chiefs’ Role In Acquisition, Odierno Tells HASC

Enhance Service Chiefs’ Role In Acquisition, Odierno Tells HASC
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno

Bolstering the role of service chiefs in acquisition would help make procurement more effective, the Army Chief of Staff told the House Armed Services Committee (HASC).“I’d like to see an increased role for the service chiefs, which was significantly reduced in 1986 with Goldwater-Nichols,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told the committee hearing March 17 on the FY '16 DoD budget.The Goldwater-Nichols Act created the position of Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics. This came…

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