New vice chairman wants to bring Pentagon's requirements process into 'information age'

By Justin Doubleday / January 17, 2020 at 4:08 PM
The Pentagon's second highest ranking military officer said today one of his top priorities is updating the Defense Department's requirements process in line with "information age" technology, as he called DOD's current methods for building software "horrible." Air Force Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is currently in a "data gathering" mode as he considers how to reform the process for developing requirements for major acquisition programs as head of the Joint Requirements...

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