Challenges of Adapting DoD’s Acquisition Portfolio to a New Defense Strategy
Presentation
Presentation by David Arthur, an analyst in CBO's National Security Division, at the Naval Postgraduate School's 19th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium.
If the Department of Defense made major changes in strategy, history suggests that two types of challenges could be faced:
Funding-based challenges: Funding could be needed to develop and procure weapons befitting the new strategy; funding would also be needed to ensure that today's force continues to have the weapons it needs to meet immediate missions.
Knowledge-based challenges: Information would be needed to determine what new weapons to pursue and learn how to build them.
