In requirements reform, led by Mike Duffy, we killed an old, old model, a sclerotic model, and rewired the department so that problems, money and experimentation live in one system. In acquisitions reform, We killed the Defense acquisition system and created accountable portfolio acquisition executives, making speed to delivery our organizing principle. We're going to do the same for technological innovation. That's why today, at my direction, we are ending the Alphabet soup of councils that meet and brief and write memos and schedule meetings, but never decide and rarely, if ever, accelerate outcomes. (28:18–28:33)
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