The Pentagon has released a 160-page report identifying excessive costs imposed on the defense industry, as well as recommendations on how to begin eliminating them. Katrina McFarland, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition under Frank Kendall, the Defense Department's top weapons buyer, prefaced the newly released report (dated Sept. 29) by acknowledging that the Pentagon's labyrinthine procurement system places many requirements on industry that outweigh benefits to the government. "The central challenge of this work was to identify activities which...
