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Driscoll Goes Scorched Earth on Army Buying Inertia
Driscoll advocates a 50-year overhaul to speed procurement to 45 days and reduce contractor reliance, citing Ukraine’s rapid drone innovation as a model.
- On Monday at AUSA, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll pledged organizational acquisition reform, vowing to adopt a Silicon Valley-style acquisition approach to speed delivery of tools to soldiers.
- Against battlefield lessons from Ukraine, Dan Driscoll ordered earlier this year that Army contracts include a right-to-repair provision, while a U.S. Government Accountability Office report found missing manuals for five major systems.
- Using cost comparisons, Driscoll noted Army-tested 3D-printed components can cost about $3,000 and $60 versus $14,000 and $47,000 for full replacements.
- About $750 million will back FUZE next year, increasing to $765 million, while Driscoll is co-hosting an investor day with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to court private-equity and infrastructure investors.
- The planned overhaul would consolidate equipment-purchasing entities into a single acquisition organization reporting to senior Army leadership, aiming to cut the 12- to 18-month contracting cycle, though analysts such as Mark Cancian warn it carries risk and may rely on private capital.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Army plans to ‘disrupt’ buying, give less work to defense contractors
The U.S. 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...
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.
Driscoll hints acquisition reshuffle is weeks away in AUSA speech
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll touted the Army’s recent launch of its Fuze program during remarks kicking off the service’s largest trade show today -- and signaled a forthcoming reform will build off it in the next couple of weeks. “Fuze finds and grows capabilities, then feeds them into our broader acquisitions system,” Driscoll said, according to an embargoed copy of his remarks. “That’s where our next reform lies -- organizational acquisition r…
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