Transforming Defense Acquisition From the Inside

摘要

U.S. military officials may delay the next iteration of the Pentagon's premier acquisition reform initiative, Better Buying Power 3.0, which likely will continue to improve service acquisition and exportability processes. Officially launched in 2010, the Better Buying Power (BBP) initiative is a broad effort for the defense acqui- sition community to reform itself from within. BBP encompasses a set of fundamental acquisition principles to achieve greater efficiencies through affordability, cost control, elimination of unproductive processes and bureaucracy, and promotion of competition. BBP initiatives also are designed to incentivize productivity and innovation in industry and government and improve tradecraft in the acquisition of services, according to the BBP website.