Pentagon Debuts Yet Another Plan to Speed Up Weapons Buys – By Richard Sisk (Military.com) / Oct 8 2020
The latest plan to overhaul the Defense Department’s hidebound systems for procuring weapons, goods and services is underway — with an emphasis on speed from design to fielding, as well as cutting maintenance costs, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The new plan, called the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, or AAF, is intended to bring about the “most transformational change to acquisition policy in years, perhaps decades,” said Ellen Lord, the under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.
Existing procurement methods “rarely enabled speed” and resulted in a process that could take up to eight years from design to delivery, she said at a Pentagon briefing.
In adopting “best practices” from industry, the AAF is meant to bridge gaps between design and fielding to “deliver capability to our warfighters faster,” Lord added.
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