The Obama administration is knocking a $42 million cut to the Navy's request for establishing a new rapid prototyping and demonstration program included in the House's fiscal year 2017 defense spending bill. In a June 14 statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget argues against cutting the "Rapid Prototyping, Experimentation and Demonstration" (RPED) initiative. The cut "hinders the Department-wide goal of employing new techniques to make the acquisition process more agile and efficient," OMB contends. The House...
