Acquisition challenge: 100 new starts in 2004-08.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse - Brief Article

This summer, the Marine Corps will inaugurate its "Acquisition Campus," located about two miles north of the Quantico Marine Base, in Virginia. About 1,000 acquisition professionals will be moving in as early as July, said Brig. Gen. James M. Feigley, chief of the Marine Corps Systems Command.

As they settle in their new digs, these acquisition workers will need to get busy very quickly, because the Marine Corps has challenged them to field at least 100 new products between...