Here’s How the Pentagon Is Speeding Up Weapons Contracts
The Pentagon building in Washington, DC.
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The Pentagon’s acquisition officers are using an array of shortcuts to standard contracting procedures to restock US weapons and resupply Ukrainian forces.
They include an alphabet soup of fast-track techniques developed during the Covid pandemic to streamline a process that developed over decades to encourage innovation while promoting contracting safeguards.