The House Armed Services Committee will tackle a defense acquisition reform effort, led by committee vice chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.), which may include some combination of amending past rules so they work as intended and scrapping old rules in favor of starting from scratch. HASC chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said yesterday that “we cannot afford a costly and ineffective acquisition system, particularly when faced with devastating impacts of repeated budget cuts and sequestration. The…
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