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Kendall: Better Buying Power 3.0 Would Promote Value over Cost, Incentivize Innovation

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Thursday, August 7th, 2014

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Kendall: Better Buying Power 3.0 Would Promote Value over Cost, Incentivize Innovation

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Photo: DoD.

Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall says his third iteration of Better Buying Power would incentivize industry to be innovative in delivering better products for a better value to the military, and force program managers to think harder about what they hope to deliver to the warfighter and how to best achieve that end goal. Speaking at the AFCEA Defense Acquisition Modernization Symposium Tuesday, Kendall said he would roll out Better Buying Power 3.0 in the spring, which would build upon…

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