… Navy issues and particularly hull growth for our fleet capacity, the Commerce Science Transportation Committee is just as important. But my top focus, number one writ large, is acquisition reform. We need to reform the process for how we specify pay for buy field and support systems. We've allowed the process to become the focus instead of the outcome. We've allowed procedure and compliance to outweigh excellence and performance. And we need to get back to risk taking and the concept of risk mitigation. (08:53–09:00)
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Asserts the need for acquisition reform in military procurement processes.
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