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FACING THE THREAT


An amphibious assault vehicle proceeds to assault the objective during Exercise Steel Knight at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, in December 2015. Addressing threats currently facing U.S. forces will require innovation, and that innovation won’t necessarily come cheap. For Kendall, it will also require re-examining how DOD does its job. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin Boling)


Tailoring is about “structuring a program in the best way to deliver that program. And if it’s a service contract, it’s structur- ing the business deal for the service contract and the best way to get whatever the government is trying to achieve.”


As if addressing the risk-averse, Kendall said, “Tere is enormous encouragement at the top. We do do a conscious process of tai- loring documentation requirements for people coming through for milestone decisions, but the tailoring I’m really most inter- ested in is the program structure itself—what risk mitigation is needed, if any, and what decision points are needed, and how that’s logically structured together. How things are set up with industry, so we don’t have things that don’t have value for us, for example.”


So, the next generation of Meals, Ready to Eat doesn’t need the same kind of structure, oversight, testing, evaluation and


so forth as the next-generation fighter jet. Te risks are entirely different. Engineers need to be supervising engineers, for example, because if a program manager doesn’t fundamentally understand the stakes, risks or requirements of a program, the government can end up purchasing something that, even if it may be the latest and greatest tech whiz-bangery, does not fulfill the government’s purpose.


Tailoring has to be within the rules but, Kendall emphasized,


“a lot of things can be waived.” He wants managers to decide if something should be waived—and then ask for the waiver.


Misunderstandings about tailoring, he said, “may have to do with some of the OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] staff, who kind of like to do things by the book, sometimes. What I’ve done there recently is put a requirement on them that, if they raise an issue with a service, they have to tell the service—and


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