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Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk. |
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Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon. |
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Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building. |
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Defense budgets headed down, no matter who's in the White House In fact, fuel prices should have a much broader influence on defense spending over the next several years than who's resident in the White House. |
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Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Managing Supply Chains: What the Military Can Teach Business (and Vice Versa) In reality, both worlds have an opportunity to learn from each other's mistakes and successes. |
CFO
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Federal Offenses A dozen years after passage of the CFO act, the U.S. Government still struggles to close its books... |
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The More Things Change... A sampling of viewpoints about problems in defense acquisitions over the last 25 years. |
IEEE Spectrum
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What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations. |
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Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law. |
National Defense
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In Budgets as in War, Hope Is Not a Strategy Wishful thinking has been taken to new heights in this year's Pentagon budget. The hope is that Congress will somehow make peace after years of partisan trench warfare. |
