The latest installment of Better Buying Power -- the Pentagon's marquee acquisition improvement initiative -- aims to stimulate technological innovation by increasing the involvement of defense contractors in the weapons program requirements process. Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, said Better Buying Power 3.0 would direct funding for new competitive concept definition work for defense contractors that would put industry executives and government program managers more closely in sync. "I'm trying to stimulate industry to innovate and I want to...