Americans love to look for silver-bullet solutions to monstrous problems, and few monsters are in more need of slaying than the cumbersome and costly system the U.S. uses to acquire defense systems. Since the 1960s, countless blue-ribbon investigative panels and hundreds of reports have called for the government to reform its complex and wasteful system, yet the cost of weapons systems keeps ballooning and program delays are endemic. It is little wonder that there are cries to fire all the bureaucrats, shut the whole mess down and start over.
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