The Pentagon should streamline its requirements and acquisition processes and enhance the involvement of the service chiefs in acquisition matters, the Defense Business Board says. During its quarterly meeting today, the board unanimously approved a set of eight overarching recommendations proposed by a task group designed to re-engineer the Pentagon's requirements and acquisition process. Then-Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright called for the study last April, saying the Defense Department needed a better way to...
