
Defense acquisition chief Frank Kendall is set to roll out a draft of his Better Buying Power 3.0 later this month–tentatively on Sept. 12–to outline how the Defense Department and industry can bring better technologies to the warfighter in a more efficient manner. Speaking at ComDef 2014, Kendall said that if BBP 1.0 was about rules and business practices and BBP 2.0 was about critical thinking in contracting, then BBP 3.0 “is going to get us back to our products…