SIMI VALLEY, CA -- The Defense Department expects to release in fiscal year 2018 a modernization blueprint to guide future investments in technological capabilities, the Pentagon's acquisition chief said Saturday. Ellen Lord told reporters at the Reagan National Defense Forum here the new modernization strategy would build off the upcoming National Defense Strategy and align DOD's labs and innovation centers. "The department leadership wants to make sure that we're aligned across the services, across all of [the Office of the...
