In a rebuke to his critics in Congress, Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, said Wednesday that he does not plan to author a fourth installment of Better Buying Power -- the Defense Department's key acquisition improvement initiative -- because current trends indicate that the first three BBP initiatives have been successfully controlling weapon system contract costs. Kendall, who spoke at a Potomac Officers Club event in McLean, VA, unveiled "new data" spanning the period from 1985 to the present,...
