No. of Recommendations: 1
When a major goal is to overhaul the moribund inefficient Pentagon procurement processes, necessary to rebuild our military, then the simpatico arrangement between the Generals and Defense contractors must be degraded. Breaking those bonds necessarily requires a degree of "out with the old".
Procurement and program development is a multi-layered onion. I have family working in this space and they talk to their...customers...some of whom are in uniformed services and some of them are in 3-letter agencies all the time.
The entire process is screwed up. The government demands fixed price contracts from their suppliers...then turns around and demands extra things, changes requirements, and generally doesn't know what it wants. Then it complains about cost overruns.
