Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall is scheduled this week to present results from the Defense Department's third annual acquisition system performance evaluation, focusing on progress made under the Better Buying Power initiative. The evaluation comes as Congress is debating a provision in the proposed fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill that grants milestone decision authority to the military service chiefs for non-joint acquisition programs, thus sidelining much of Kendall's civilian authority. Kendall has indicated that this year's evaluation of the...
