
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has heard the criticism of a draft acquisition rule that would further define what constitutes a “commercial item,” and agrees that it needs to be refined before it is put into place, he said Sept. 9."The rule as it's read is very general,” he said after a speech at the ComDef 2015 conference. “I would like it, frankly, to be more specific, and I'm working with my contracting people on how to do that.”The rule…