{"id":188718,"date":"2010-08-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/07\/what-a-remarkably-unambitious-goal\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T12:05:00","slug":"what-a-remarkably-unambitious-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/07\/what-a-remarkably-unambitious-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Remarkably Unambitious Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much study, the Congressionally mandated to review the Pentagon&#8217;s Quadrennial Defense Review has determined that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Report+New+US+Weapons+Systems+Should+Take+No+Longer+Than+7+Years+to+Develop\/article19261.htm\">it takes too long to develop and deploy new weaopons<\/a>, and so there should be a 7 year limit to developing weapons systems:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>To avoid this problem in the future, Perry and co-chair Steven Hadley want defense contractors to be held to a tight five to seven year development phase. &#8220;Past experience indicates that, with proper management authority and accountability, it is possible to deliver relevant military capabilities for current operations in weeks and months, and to deliver longer-term and broader increments of military capability in 5 to 7 years,&#8221; noted the pair in the report. &#8220;The 5- to 7-year time span is consistent with the march of technology, changes in the operational environment, and changes in operational needs to shape and respond to that environment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, but that is at least twice as long as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>This is a remarkably timid conclusion, kind of like saying that you should not exceed 70 mph in a school zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much study, the Congressionally mandated to review the Pentagon&#8217;s Quadrennial Defense Review has determined that it takes too long to develop and deploy new weaopons, and so there should be a 7 year limit to developing weapons systems: To avoid this problem in the future, Perry and co-chair Steven Hadley want defense contractors to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}