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‘THE BUILDING’
The processes by which acquisition decisions move through the Pentagon and Capitol Hill are being reexamined at all levels to identify and eliminate unproductive steps. (DOD photo by TSgt Andy Dunaway.)
government-imposed areas of cost they find unnecessary.
“They tell me everything we ask them to do is necessary. No, it’s not,” said Torelli, who spent 25 years in industry before coming back into the government. “There are bureaucratic things we put into place because something happened badly once.
“If we are serious about making these kinds of changes—and as you’ve heard, Mr. [Frank] Kendall [Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisi- tion, Technology, and Logistics], Carter, and the leadership are serious about these changes—let’s identify what they are,” Torelli said.
“We’ve come up with a streamlined, anno- tated outline. It’s a prep guide so the program manager has something with which he can manage the program,” he said. The documents cover acquisition strategy, the systems engineering plan, program protection plan, and life cycle sustainment plan. “We’re going to do
some oversight, but we’re delegating to the services significantly in places where we can, where Dr. Carter and Mr. Kendall think it’s the right thing to do, and that’s going to streamline your life.”
Torelli also discussed working with Congress to eliminate low-value-added statutory requirements, reducing the vol- ume and cost of internal congressional reports, and creating Defense Acquisition Board decision briefing templates—not
“so we can take thought out of the equa- tion,” but “to make you think.”
“There’s an awful lot of what we do [in which] we’re doing to put a check mark in a block because someone said they had to, when, in fact it may not be necessary.”
Reducing nonproductive processes requires everyone’s involvement, Assad said. “If you see something that doesn’t make sense, stand up, talk about it.”
DAU has a website devoted specifically to Better Buying Power, at https://acc.dau.
mil/bbp, organized by Carter’s five areas of efficiency. Check it out for news, key documents, frequently asked questions with DOD-approved answers, and interactive discussions of best practices.
MARGARET C. ROTH is the Senior Edi- tor of Army AL&T Magazine. She holds a B.A. in Russian language and linguistics from the University of Virginia. Roth has more than a decade of experience in writ- ing about the Army and more than two decades’ experience in journalism and pub- lic relations.
KELLYN D. RITTER provides contract support to the U.S. Army Acquisition Sup- port Center (USAASC) through BRTRC Technology Marketing Group. She has a B.A. in English from Dickinson College.
MARQUES CHAVEZ provides contract support to USAASC through BRTRC Tech- nology Marketing Group. He has a B.S. in Journalism and Communication from Utah State University.
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