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Pentagon Restructures Acquisition Arm To Speed Fielding, Reduce Cost Of Technology

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Pentagon Restructures Acquisition Arm To Speed Fielding, Reduce Cost Of Technology
Pat Shanahan, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be deputy secretary of defense. (Photo courtesy of Boeing)

The Pentagon has launched a restructuring of its acquisition leadership that decouples research and engineering responsibilities from acquisition and fielding of new weapons in an effort to match speed with modernizing adversaries.Detailed in a report sent to Congress on Aug. 2 is the division of responsibilities previously held by the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics (USD AT&L) into two new positions and the reorganization of the Pentagon’s acquisition structure under those two new officers. The restructuring was…

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