The Pentagon’s outgoing acquisition czar, Frank Kendall, said Tuesday he’s nervous about a trend toward rapid acquisition, which he called high risk and low quality.Kendall said an example of this is the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle program. He said the vehicles, first deployed in Iraq, were built with a relatively simple design put together with a lot of armor. The problem, Kendall said, was that they were not well suited for the terrain in Afghanistan. Due to that,…
