The new defense acquisition reform bill from House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) seeks to drive greater agility into the Pentagon's notoriously slow and sclerotic bureaucracy by creating flexible “prototype project” funds managed by each military service. The new funds would allow the services to spend up to $5 million per prototype project, with an option to increase that to $25 million if approved by congressional defense committees, according to Thornberry's proposed “Acquisition Agility Act.” Prototype projects would...
