Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette, deputy chief of staff of U.S. Army Futures Command, said the service should launch efforts to begin streamlining the processes for technological acquisitions to achieve G-8’s 2028 modernization goals.
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He said the command has to focus on and address its technological acquisition capability requirements through programs that reduce bureaucratic processes from three to five years to less than a year, the U.S. Army said Thursday.
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“[It] is not about creating new Army structure … but rather streamlining of work to overcome the bureaucratic inertia and stove-piping,†Pasquarette said at an Association of the U.S. Army Institute of Land Warfare meeting.
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He noted that Defense Secretary James Mattis instructed the Futures Command to be at par with peer-competitors when it comes to tech acquisitions by fiscal year 2022.
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The Army will update Abrams and Bradley fleets as part of the European Defense Initiative budget request, Pasquarette added.
