OBAMA AND THE ISSUES: DEFENSE

Time To Fix Military Procurement -- Again

Momentum is building for real reform of one of government's most intractable problems.

by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Saturday, April 25, 2009


Military procurement reformers in the past have fired one would-be silver bullet after another, with each brainstorm tending to contradict the previous one. Will the Obama administration's effort to revamp the process for buying weapons meet a similar fate?

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