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In this episode, Strategic Institute, discusses the opportunity to make improvements in defense acquisition for R&D and delivering new advanced capabilities by recognizing and jettisoning systems and processes that have become institutionally corrupt, that do not serve its ‘purpose’, its ‘why’ or the reason it exists.
How will the defense bureaucratic-industrial complex respond to a renewed push to clean up, streamline, and improve how it operates to better deliver for the warfighter, natsec and beyond? The multi-generational resistance to improvement and straying on its mission to benefit the interests of bureaucrats and contractors has gotten worse in recent years. Due to this, the U.S.A. is falling behind technologically and in its ability actually field the best solutions in a timely or relevant manner.
As new technology driven defense companies take the lead and A.I. is implemented, the old business-as-usual acquisition bureaucratic procedures, unable to add value, are becoming irrelevant. This system doesn’t need high-paid box checkers towing-the-line, it needs creators, critical thinkers and problem-solvers, and those with business-savvy which it is ill-equipped. The incentives are wrong
DoD has failed to train and mentor the next generation of acquisition pros. Instead, leadership has done what is always has: protect the status-quo, innovate at the fringes, use trendy jargon and internal myth, while blaming others instead rising to the challenge and being accountable.
Is now finally the time for defense acquisition to refocus on and prioritize its purpose?
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