Program officials across the Navy have begun identifying and working toward "should-cost" goals for their programs under a new directive from service acquisition chief Sean Stackley as the service seeks to squeeze out savings wherever it can, BJ White-Olson, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for management and budget, told Inside the Navy in a recent interview. Stackley, in a July 19 memo titled "Implementation of Should-Cost Management," states that all programs falling under acquisition category (ACAT) I through III...
