War Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled his plan to eliminate what he called “Pentagon Bureaucracy” getting in the way of delivering innovative and top-quality military resources to America’s armed forces and customer allies.
“Today, we’re undertaking a departmentwide transformation of requirements, acquisition and foreign military sales, addressing a core function of what we do at the War Department, identifying what our war fighters need, how we buy those capabilities, and then how we share those capabilities with our allies and partners, all in service of decisively winning any war that we must wage,” he said.
Speaking for more than 70 minutes at the National War College in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 7, Hegseth outlined his plan to eliminate the current “burdensome and inefficient” requirements and acquisition processes to ensure the development, production, and delivery of new weapons move at a wartime pace….