The Army is creating a new Global Tactical Edge Acquisition Directorate to accelerate how battlefield technology reaches soldiers, part of a broader push to shorten the cycle between innovation and large-scale procurement and a major overhaul of the service’s acquisition enterprise unveiled today. The new directorate -- part of one of the new Pathway for Innovation shop being formed along six other new program acquisition executive organizations that will absorb a dozen program executive offices and reassign 97 acquisition programs...
