Derrick Van Orden: “Our acquisition process simply sucks.”

“If we had the manufacturing capacity to. To produce everything that we possibly wanted, that we still wouldn't be able to get it to the troops because Our acquisition process simply sucks. That's a term of art. I learned it in law. If we had the resources to build everything we wanted. Yes. We would still be getting things to the troops late.” (04:26–04:29)

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