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Eliot Converse

Space Force harkens back to an old way of organizing for acquisition

January 6, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Through the end of the 1940s, the Air Materiel Command had assigned two “project officers”—one for development and one for production—to monitor each system’s acquisition. […]

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