Procurement reform: 128 commissions ... and counting.

• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.
• Position: Washington PULSE

The head of a federal advisory panel in charge of recommending changes to the Pentagon's procurement policies acknowledges that the cards are stacked against any kind of immediate, substantial changes, if history is any guide.

This latest attempt at overhauling military procurement, known as the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment, comes on the heels of 128 previous studies, many of which proposed similar reforms.

"After World War II, we had commission after commission after commission" studying defense...