The Pentagon, in one of the biggest shifts in requirements-setting in two decades, is scrapping the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) -- long criticized as slow and bureaucratic -- and creating a new senior board to tie military requirements directly to budgets and accelerate technology delivery to the battlefield, according to a memo obtained by Inside Defense . The move is a “decisive change” intended to inject urgency into the Defense Department’s acquisition system, according to the Aug...
