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Air Force

Pentagon’s Acquisition Chief Taking Steps To Improve Program Execution

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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Pentagon's chief weapons buyer is looking to a number of efforts such as competitive prototyping to improve program execution and help deliver systems and technologies to warfighters quicker. John Young, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, is also examining ways to rein in costs, bring stability to acquisition programs, and provide more oversight of those efforts, he told reporters during a recent briefing. Young told reporters that in light of the Government Accountability…

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