Kendall Vows To Measure Productivity Of Major Acquisition Programs, Industry

By Christopher J. Castelli / November 5, 2012 at 9:16 PM
The Pentagon will begin measuring the productivity of major defense acquisition programs, including the contractors that build big-ticket weapons and military organizations that oversee the purchases, Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall said today. Kendall plans to issue a report early next year assessing the performance of the defense acquisition system, the start of an effort to use quantitative data analysis, rather than intuition, to drive decisions about which acquisition approaches work best. "We're one of the few businesses in...

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