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Diverse Debates => News & Current Events => Topic started by: Conservative Perspective on May 03, 2025, 03:43:42 AM

Title: Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon’s broken buying system and the plan to fix it
Post by: Conservative Perspective on May 03, 2025, 03:43:42 AM
Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon's broken buying system and the plan to fix it

The Army's tech chief laid out his plans to solve a decades-long problem at the Pentagon: acquisitions that lag behind technological changes and fail to modernize the military.

Source: Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon's broken buying system and the plan to fix it (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/army-tech-chief-pentagon-must-break-bureaucracy-win-wars)
Title: Re: Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon’s broken buying system and the plan to fix it
Post by: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on May 03, 2025, 06:57:17 PM
Sounds like the military-industrial complex wants to keep the gravy train rolling instead of adapting to the realities of 21st century warfare.  We need a better way of determining what is effective in the battlefields of the near future especially if China decides to make a grab for the bulk of East Asia.