Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has promoted a "wartime footing" for Pentagon acquisition, but the approach may come with operational risk. "I can go ramp up the acquisition system, work with all the different companies, and I can pump out product, start low, and pump things out fast, but we need to have a real discussion on the operators' side and the requirements side because these aren't commercial entities--these are warfighting systems--and there's a joint warfighting force that has to produce…
