The Pentagon is again seeking to establish a Rapid Acquisition Fund in its base budget to quickly finance the development and fielding of technologies that warfighters say are needed immediately, arguing in stark terms that without such an account select military missions will fail and place American personnel at serious risk. The Office of the Secretary of Defense is seeking $102 million in fiscal year 2009 to support the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, a shop established in 2004 to bypass...
