Army Plans to ‘Disrupt’ Buying, Give Less Work to Defense Contractors

The US Army plans to shift to a Silicon Valley model as it works to speed up the development, buying and fielding of new equipment — and traditional defense prime contractors shouldn’t expect to continue business as usual.

“In just a matter of weeks, we will announce changes to how we buy military equipment,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Monday at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army in Washington. “We are going to completely disrupt the system that held the Army back for decades and lined the primes’ pockets for so long.”