I’d say that the barriers to


collaboration between both the commercial and the global market and the defense market are primarily things that Congress introduced.


government who have industry experi- ence, global experience and preferably even commercial experience, because today the commercial world is ahead in many areas.


We need to clearly stress the education and training aspects. I just completed a National Academy of Engineering study where I was shocked to find that the government has been questioning the value of paying for people to get master’s and doctoral degrees—even via distance learning. Tat just shocked me, because I think there’s no question that understanding what it is you’re doing makes sense.


I got my Ph.D. while I was working in the government. And now we’re running this acquisition specialization as part of the master’s and doctoral degrees here at the University of Maryland, and that usually is paid for by the company or the govern- ment. I had both of my master’s degrees paid for by the company I was working for, and my Ph.D. by the government. [Otherwise] I probably wouldn’t have done it—I couldn’t have afforded it.


Army AL&T: Te Gansler Commis- sion put a lot of emphasis on the need for leadership, particularly senior mili- tary leadership, to raise the visibility and importance of a professional contract- ing corps. Is there anyone in your eyes who’s exemplifying that leadership for the Army?


Gansler: I think there are people in the Army, retired as well as current, who have really stressed that. But I’d rather not name one or two. Tere’s still a set of controls over them in this 186,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations, and by Congress. When Congress brings them up on the Hill to attack them for screwups on the programs, Congress


keeps writing corrective actions by add- ing more pages to that document. Tey fix things, they think; but they’re not giving the flexibility or the value of the acquisition workforce that they should be. Instead of attacking them and writ- ing new laws to control them, they need to give them the experience and flexibility and recognition.


Army AL&T: You’ve said that people don’t think that cost is a requirement, but that cost should absolutely be a requirement.


Gansler: Absolutely. When you buy something today in the real world, you have a design-to-cost objective: Tis


CYBER LEADERSHIP


ADM Michael S. Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, speaks to cadets, staff and faculty Jan. 9 during a leader professional development session at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, NY. “There are a lot of things we could be doing better,” Gansler said, to protect against terror and cyber threats, “in the sense of better integration of intelligence activities,” among other things. (Photo by SFC Jeremy Bunkley, USMA Public Affairs)


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