The Pentagon's top acquisition official has approved the Marine Corps' Amphibious Combat Vehicle Increment 1.1 program's entry into the engineering and manufacturing development phase but is directing the service to conduct additional analysis of the program, according to service and industry sources. Pentagon spokeswoman Maureen Schumann confirmed in a June 5 email that Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall chaired a Defense Acquisition Board meeting on June 4 to discuss the ACV Increment 1.1 program. Kendall, the under secretary of defense...
