The US Army is going commercial and ditching bespoke technologies that take to too long to reach soldiers on the battlefield, as part of a major change in the way the service buys and deploys weapons.
The largest US military service is attempting to “mimic the best practices of private industry,” so soldiers can get weapons and equipment much faster to match the rapidly changing nature of modern warfare at a large scale, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told reporters gathered at the Pentagon Wednesday.
“The defense industrial base broadly, and the primes in ...