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In spite of building the best educated acquisition corps ever thanks to the Defense Acquisition University and service certification processes now in full swing, the Pentagon struggles mightily with hitting the acquisition target. Just last week a Pentagon report of the top 95 acquisition programs highlighted  $64 billion in cost overruns and a number of significant program deficiencies or breaches.

Concerns over Pentagon acquisition performance are nothing new and evaluating how well the Pentagon performs is as complicated as any assessment. Or is it? Consider a single question for a program that we can affect today: 

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