The Pentagon needs to deprioritize easy acquisition performance metrics like cost and schedule performance in favor of whether a program will maximize the military’s combat capability, according to the outgoing acquisition czar.“I would like to see things that are going to most improve the combat capability of the United States,” outgoing Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) Frank Kendall said Tuesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank in Washington. Kendall was…
