Acquisition Efficiencies

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's procurement executive, will roll out “new acquisition and procurement initiatives guidelines” on Tuesday, according to a Pentagon announcement.

On June 28, Carter said he aimed to find as much as $12 billion in annual savings from the Pentagon's procurement of goods and services through more efficient practices, funds that could be plowed back into weapons procurement accounts.

The new initiatives, due to be unveiled at a 2 p.m. press conference at the Pentagon, are expected to reflect ideas proposed from within the defense bureaucracy as well as from suggestions proposed by defense industry. Inside the Pentagon last week reported that Carter will unveil the new efforts to an audience of senior Defense Department acquisition officials in a auditorium at the National Defense University earlier in the day.