House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) said today that the panel's top priority in the coming year -- along with increasing defense spending -- will be reforming the Pentagon's notoriously slow and cumbersome acquisition system, a perennial concern on Capitol Hill. “The top priority for this committee in this year's [defense authorization bill] is to deal with that acquisition and infrastructure and process and reform it, as well as getting defense spending up,” Rogers said during a hearing...
