The military services are all engaged in efforts to integrate environmental sustainability into the acquisition process, emphasizing payoffs in both areas and looking to the example of private industry, service representatives said last week. It's important to "start talking early about the systems we're going to design and build to ensure environmental sustainability is built into those systems," said Maj. Gen. James R. Snider, the deputy chief of staff for research, development and acquisition at Army Materiel Command. "It makes...
