WASHINGTON: We’re not going to do an in-depth story about Frank Kendall’s latest effort to improve acquisition,Better Buying Power 3 0 Interim Release Materials, because the really significant changes will come from Congress — if they come at all this next year.

But the Professional Services Council — whose members don’t bend metal, they sell services — says this about BBP 3.0, as it’s very fondly known in the Pentagon: “BBP 3.0 is too focused on internal process changes rather than achieving extraordinary outcomes and too many of the barriers to real innovation and efficiency remain unaddressed,” Stan Soloway, the PSC’s CEO, said in a statement.

“The result is a blueprint focused on incremental change to the current DoD process rather than to the department’s future ability to achieve the goals of excellence and dominance it seeks.” If you want to know what can be done to improve how the Pentagon buys weapons and services, read Bill Greenwalt’s op-eds..