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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…
