The Promise and Peril of Mac Thornberry’s Defense Acquisition Reform

Editor’s Note: This article was authored by the Defense Reform Committee of the Project for the Common Defense.   One day, “[t]he entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft.” So predicted Norm Augustine in 1984. Lockheed Martin’s chairman and CEO further prophesied that “This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force … Continue reading The Promise and Peril of Mac Thornberry’s Defense Acquisition Reform