Senate NDAA to keep acquisition reform provisions boosting nontraditional defense firms: Official
Sen. Roger Wicker aims to fold the FORGED Act into the NDAA, but with some changes meant to ease the concerns of major defense primes.
Sen. Roger Wicker aims to fold the FORGED Act into the NDAA, but with some changes meant to ease the concerns of major defense primes.
“The fragility of today’s DIB [defense industrial base] is a direct consequence of decades of well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided, acquisition regulations,” a summary of the bill reads.
“I hope and believe that President Trump's pledge to restore peace through strength so that we can avoid conflict is going to be followed through with adequate funding,” Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Roger Wicker told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
Sen. Roger Wicker, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a report outlining key reforms the Defense Department and Congress could make to improve the acquisition process, as well as corresponding legislation to implement those changes.