Acquisition Reform Requires a Broad-Based Effort

摘要

AFCEA increasingly is engaged in the effort to improve the acquisition process, particularly as it supports the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C~4ISR) and information technology communities. The association addresses this critical topic in this edition of SIGNAL; it has supported some workshops to discuss specific aspects of the problem; and it has held two conferences in the past several months on acquisition.rnIn June, AFCEA co-hosted a conference in London on "Acquisition in Time of War" that focused mostly on NATO and supported what some would call expeditionary acquisition. In September, the association ran one of its SOLUTIONS series events at the National Conference Center in Lansd-owne, Virginia, on C~4I and information technology acquisition. AFCEA also is being asked frequently to include acquisition content in many of its warfighter-focused events worldwide. From all of this activity, and from many separate discussions with government and industry leaders focused on improving acquisition, I have reached some conclusions.