YOUNG FAVORS JOINT ANALYSIS TEAMS OVER PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

/ June 5, 2008 at 5:00 AM
As the Pentagon embarks on an ambitious plan to bolster the influence combatant commanders have in developing new military capabilities, the Defense Department's top weapons buyer this week said another strategy may be better suited to integrating the services' needs into the process. DOD procurement czar John Young expressed concern that the department's capability portfolio management (CPM) process could add another cumbersome layer to an already complicated capabilities-development process. "It has some benefits that I can see [but] it has,...

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