Former Special Operations Officer Warns Pentagon Acquisition Process Threatens National Security

What was said

"Until we switch to a more iterative model, which is really just low-level decision-making, it's the same thing that's made us successful in combat. We need to do that same thing in purchasing. And we need to say a battalion commander is plenty responsible to use their budget on new technologies that they want."

A former special operations officer warns that the Pentagon's technology acquisition process is failing to prepare America for future warfare. He argues that battalion commanders should have direct purchasing authority for new technologies without bureaucratic vendor approval processes, applying the same decentralized decision-making that makes US forces effective in combat to procurement.