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Acquisition Reform

Streamline Defense Acquisitions

By Ben Noble
May 2020
The procedures for low-dollar contracts allow for an expedited acquisition process, but there are more steps that can be taken to make them better serve the American warfighter and taxpayer.
The USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) basks in a sunset glow in the Yellow Sea while deployed to the 7th Fleet area of responsibility in 2019.

Growing Missions, Shrinking Fleet

By Rear Admiral Terry McKnight, U.S. Navy (Retired)
May 2020
The Coast Guard national security cutter program is critical to U.S. security and the defense industrial base. The nation must find a way to fund the 12th cutter.
Carl von Clausewitz

Virtual Clausewitz

By Second Lieutenant Matthew Suarez, U.S. Marine Corps
May 2020
Virtual reality can help busy leaders learn war in a way Clausewitz could not have imagined.
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