Carter: Pentagon’s Acquisition System Still Not ‘Responsive’
Carter: Pentagon’s Acquisition System Still Not ‘Responsive’
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter is on his way out the
door in two weeks. In 2009, he took over as the Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and led
that office until 2011 when was nominated as the Pentagon’s No.
2.  He’s been in charge of overseeing major changes to the
Defense Department’s acquisition process as former Defense
Secretary Robert Gates as well as his successors leaned on
Carter to pare down the budgets and help cut bloated weapons
programs.  Just days before Carter is scheduled to leave his
post at the Pentagon, Carter made a not all too surprising, but
jarring comment in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:
“We have to have a military that is agile in a modern world
where technology is changing so fast,” Carter told the Wall
Street Journal. “The Pentagon’s way of doing business simply
isn’t responsive.”  The Wall Street Journ