Acting Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy said that the US military needs to adopt similar strategies to industry to upgrade technology during an event at the Defense of Democracies Center in Washington. He spoke about the need to streamline processes to stay up to date with innovation and stay ahead of other sectors.
The US DOD has committed to improving the process of acquiring new weapons and pricing. The DOD hopes to create similar structures to US industry in order to stay up to date with products.
He outlined three ways the army has improved its supply chain processes, saying they:
The new Army Futures Command aims to bring stakeholders together to reduce decision-making time. The command, based in Texas, allows groups to communicate rather than acting as a military installation and will work with acquisition communities, academia, and industry to assess requirements and stay up to date with military technology and capability.
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