Defense News
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday laid out a wide-ranging suite of changes to the military’s troubled and sluggish acquisition process intended to speed up the pace at which the Pentagon buys new weapons and other systems.
“We will rebuild the defense industrial base into a new arsenal of freedom,” Hegseth said in a speech at the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington….
The bureaucratic quagmire has become so severe, Hegseth said, that the Pentagon’s highest priorities — such as acquiring critical munitions, the Golden Dome missile defense project and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ push to quickly field the mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles during the Iraq War — have taken steps to move outside the official process.
