[IndispensableDestiny]

The first thing to do is to scrap the Defense Acquisition System. Not reform it, scrap. It institutionalizes bad practices. Then scrap the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). Possible requirements for systems go into JCIDS and never come out. JCIDS keeps new technology from driving capability.

As for the Army, it hasn't successfully developed a major ground or air system since the Cold War. Armored Systems Modernization, dead. M8 Armored Gun System, dead. Comanche light helicopter, dead. Future Combat Systems, collapsed under it's own weight, dead. FCS became the Brigade combat team Modernization, dead. Ground Combat Vehicle, dead.

The only reason we have the Stryker is that it is based on Canada's LAV III and was also intended to be a interim solution. Much like the various MRAPs.

[wgmalabama]

Agreed. The acquisition process currently is designed to field jobs not ststems. It takes too long to get something in the solders hands. Impossible requirements that add little value to the end user.