Wolfowitz Calls for 'Joint Rapid Action Cell' to Help Satisfy Urgent Warfighting Needs

By Keith Costa / September 22, 2004 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon is setting up a new team of military and civilian personnel that will work on finding ways to quickly and effectively deliver urgently needed capabilities to warfighters. In a widely distributed Sept. 3 memorandum , Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz directs the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and the Pentagon comptroller to establish the outfit, dubbed the "Joint Rapid Action Cell," or JRAC for short. The Joint Staff, combatant commands and the services will...

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