The Greatest Threat to Acquisition Transformation Is Fear

The Department of Defense’s acquisition and sustainment culture is pathologically risk-averse. The greatest threat to acquisition transformation is not the Federal Acquisition Regulation. It is not congressional oversight, statutory constraints, insufficient training, or an absence of strategy.The greatest threat is fear. Not fear as emotion, but fear as architecture.The defense acquisition system is not broken. It is functioning precisely as designed. It produces compliance. It produces documentation. It produces defensible process. It produces career survivability.But it does not reliably produce speed or meaningful results.For more than three decades, senior leaders have promised reform. Since the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of

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