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New GAO Report Lauds DOD’s Acquisition Reform Efforts, But Notes More Work Is Needed

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New GAO Report Lauds DOD’s Acquisition Reform Efforts, But Notes More Work Is Needed
Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Department of Defense has made progress on a number of acquisition reforms that Congress has pushed for in previous National Defense Authorization Acts, a June 6 government watchdog report said. However, more details on program oversight are needed to determine how successful those reform efforts will be. In a new report titled “DOD Acquisition Reform: Leadership Attention Needed to Effectively Implement Changes to Acquisition Oversight,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) expressed satisfaction with some of the department’s efforts to…

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