
The new chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee has detailed a wide-ranging proposal for improving the Pentagon’s acquisition process, to include “aggressively” cutting regulations, reducing reliance on cost-plus contracts and implementing budgeting reform. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) also released legislation that includes many of the reforms in his new “Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed" report, outlining many of the priorities he’s likely to pursue as he takes the gavel of the defense oversight committee. “The Department of Defense…