The Hill News

Pentagon budget cuts create difficulties for everyone along the U.S. Department of Defense value chain, from customers, contractors and suppliers to congressional appropriators and Wall Street investors. These pressures are forcing the government and its suppliers to dramatically challenge the status quo. On Capitol Hill, members of Congress are seeking ways to make smarter national security investments.

Unfortunately, those on the defense acquisition as well as development, production and sustainment sides are ill equipped either to meet today’s new budget-pressure realities or address the many other changes that demand greater transformation of the value chain.

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