Former senior defense officials gathered on Capitol Hill this week to pick apart the Pentagon's sprawling and oft-criticized system of acquisition regulations, while lawmakers remarked on the sense of futility that normally accompanies any effort to reform the way the Defense Department does business. "We've all heard the quote 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,'" House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) said during a June 24 hearing . "Perhaps there's no better example...
