Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told lawmakers this week the GPS III Follow-On program is an example of how the Defense Department is giving the services more leeway to manage their own acquisitions. Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a Dec. 7 hearing on acquisition reform that the Pentagon's Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Ellen Lord delegated eight more programs to the Air Force to manage last week, including the GPS III Follow-On. "In the last...
