Pentagon acquisition chief Jacques Gansler has directed the services to designate programs for a pilot project designed to test a new way of buying weapon systems and other goods and services. Price-based acquisition has been identified by a congressionally mandated study team as a promising strategy the Defense Department could implement to increase its access to commercial technology and services and "achieve far greater efficiency and effectiveness from our traditional defense suppliers," Gansler writes in a Nov. 29 memo to...
