January 24, 2020
Armed services continuously make procurement reforms
There has been years of continuous procurement reform for the Defense Department. Tinkering by Congress has rendered procurement into a sort of laboratory. And each of the armed services is running its own experiments according to Susanna Blume, is senior fellow and director of defense programs at the Center for a New American Security. She joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain.
Listen to the full conversation in Federal News Network.
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