Civilians don’t understand the planning and lead times involved in planing designing procuring and building complex systems. If yu don’t maintain the flow beyond a minimum level you lose the ability to make the products. The cuts to the DOD will resu8lt in a significant loss of capability. I maybe back in the day military but I do understand complex systems.
The Association of the United States Army (AUSA) is a private, non-profit educational organization that represents America’s soldiers and supports the U.S. Army – Active, National Guard, Reserve, civilians, retirees, government civilians, wounded warriors, veterans, and family members.
Stew Magnuson reports for National Defense that on Oct. 15, 2014, the final day of the AUSA’s annual conference in Washington, DC, a panel of officials, industry leaders and academics spelled out all the problems with the U.S. armed service’s research, development and acquisition enterprise.
The panel’s moderator asked at what point will Army readiness be compromised by sharp reductions in research, development and acquisition spending.
Heidi Shyu
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and TechnologyHeidi Shyu replied, “We are already at that point” and that the Army-owned manufacturing facilities are in a “death spiral.”
Shyu said R&D and acquisition accounts have dropped twice as fast as the Army…
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