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With that in mind, Gansler said, “A good question is, ‘What do we plan for?’ Well,” he continued, “If you’re going to plan for things, you have to recognize that if you don’t know what to plan for, then you’d better be able to move fast. And if we take 20 years to develop something, we can’t move fast.”


CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS Increasingly, Gansler said, moving fast is something that the U.S. government has a good deal of trouble accomplish- ing. “Te government used to be the leader in research investments, and yet today industry is spending more than twice what the government spends on research.” And, as the United States has long relied on technological superiority as its chief advantage over its adversar- ies, that advantage is slipping. “How do we more rapidly respond and, since our strategy literally has been technological superiority, how can we maintain that position?” Te answer is, in part, he said, to be able to take full advantage of technology available globally and commercially.


If Gansler outlined all of the challenges faced in acquisition, it fell to Kendall to try to lay out the solutions. His pre- sentation, “Better Buying Power: Do We Have It Right?” examined BBP’s successes,


shortcomings and future. Kendall said that he is concerned about


“affordability problems” as a result of sequestration. But even without those, affordability has to be baked into the requirements of every program.


His predecessor echoed that in his talk.


“I always hear the military say,” Gansler said, “ ‘Cost isn’t one of our require- ments.’ Well, it is, actually, because cost determines quantity, and quantity is clearly a military requirement.” Gansler said that cost should “be an engineering


MOVING TECH FORWARD


President Barack Obama announces two new public-private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes and launches the first of four new Manufacturing Innovation Institute Competitions, at the White House Feb. 25. Future iterations of Better Buying Power are likely to place a greater emphasis on research and development as well as collaboration among acquisition, the technology community and end users. (Official White House photo by Lawrence Jackson)


ADDRESSING THE CYBER THREAT Soldiers from the Georgia Army National Guard train at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, which played a key role in the Georgia Guard’s success in amplifying its cyber defense capabili- ties. The growing cyber threat is just one challenge that defense acquisition faces, complicating the issues of planning and budgeting. (Photo by Renita Folds)


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