Can Army Futures Command Overcome Decades Of Dysfunction?
"There are ways to be innovative in the Army," retired Lt. Gen. Tom Spoehr said. But you have to protect the innovators from the institutional culture of the Pentagon: "You can send them someplace else, like Austin."
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on August 27, 2018 at 4:29 PM
ARMY S&T CONFERENCE: How broken is the procurement system the new Army Futures Command was created to fix? It’s not just the billions wasted on cancelled weapons programs. It’s also the months wasted because, until now, there has not been one commander who can crack feuding bureaucrats’ heads together and make them stop bickering over, literally, inches.
“I have not always been an Army Futures Command fan,†retired Lt. Gen. Tom Spoehr told the National Defense Industrial Association conference here. But as he thought about his own decades in Army acquisition, he’s come around.
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