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Final Report to the President

Army acquisition and the Goldwater-Nichols Act

May 4, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1986, the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) published A Quest for Excellence, Final Report to the President. Subsequently, National Security […]

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