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Fixing Defense Acquisition Key To Joint Warfighting, Officials Agree

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Thursday, June 19th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.--Fixing defense acquisition is vital for joint and coalition forces to be dominant, relevant and ready to face the challenges of the 21st century, officials said. "What we should be doing is emphasizing system of systems...for 21st century missions," said Jacques Gansler, former DoD acquisition chief now at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, Army Chief Information Officer (CIO)/G6, agreed and said to take advantage of information technology (IT)…

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