Army scraps PEOs in bid to streamline procurement, requirements processes

The Army is taking another swing at slashing its sometimes decades-long procurement cycle by gathering up the many offices that weigh in on requirements and stacking them under a new program office structure.The six Portfolio Acquisition Executives will compress the previous 12 Program Executive Offices, with the new Transformation and Training Command in the overseeing uniformed position, and the assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology as the civilian boss.“So we had