Defense Department acquisition chief John Young has ordered a review of the Defense Department's next-generation command-and-control system after publicly and privately decrying the program's technical maturity, according to DOD officials. Young and other senior Pentagon officials discussed the status of the multibillion-dollar Net-Enabled Command Capability program at a July 31 meeting of DOD acquisition executives. Citing a "lack of confidence" in the program's cost assumptions and technical readiness, he gave Defense Information Systems Agency officials 45 days to develop an...