Army Modernization Reform Requires New Laws: General
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 08, 2017 at 11:21 AM
WASHINGTON: The Army will ask Congress to change current law to help it buy weapons better, Maj. Gen. Bill Hix told reporters. Sure, the service can do and is doing a lot with its existing authorities, he said, such as create a Futures and Modernization Command (FMC), but comprehensive reform requires more. In fact, Lt. Gen. Ed Cardon’s handpicked taskforce on acquisition reform — which Hix just joined this week — has a subunit specifically dedicated to finding laws and regulations that need to change.
“We have a legal team and a process team,†Hix explained after a panel at the Atlantic Council Wednesday. “The process team’s job is to say what is it I want to be able to do…. Then the legal team is supposed to identify where we can and can’t do that, and where we can’t do it, to start working with the legislative process to allow us (to).â€
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