WASHINGTON — Following the Army’s sprawling acquisition overhaul in the fall, the service is once again reworking some of its weapons portfolios after a brief trial period that revealed some programs should be kept separate and others should report to new bosses, a service spokesperson told Breaking Defense today.
“Acquisition reform is, and always will be, an iterative process. Over the past six months, we’ve adjusted this approach,” Ashley John, top spokesperson for the acquisition reforms spearheaded by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, told Breaking Defense today.
John added that through all the acquisition reorganizations, and for those still to come, the Army’s approach is to “keep what is working and change what is not.”
The changes shared with Breaking Defense today come after the service’s major acquisition reorganization in November that consolidated the original 12 Program Executive Offices (PEOs), now called Capability Program Executives (CPEs), under six Program Acquisition Executives (PAEs), and called for a reduction on the number of general officers at the top rank, establishing an entirely new reporting structure up the chain.
