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Pentagon, GAO Officials See Acquisition Reform Progress, Stumbles

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Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic Efforts by lawmakers to reform Defense Department acquisition, as well as internal department initiatives, seem to be taking hold in the early stages, key officials told a House Armed Services subcommittee yesterday. "For the past several years, the department has been making changes to improve the acquisition process," Nancy Spruill, the Pentagon's director of acquisition resources and analysis, told the subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs. "The department strongly supports and is aggressively implementing congressional requirements…

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