The White House is looking for savings in the wrong place

Pentagon officials are racing to meet tight deadlines to overhaul the weapon acquisition system, prescribed by the White House in two executive orders issued in April. But their haste should not obscure the likelihood that the Trump administration is ushering in a new era of overpriced weapons—and missing the larger point, to boot.The Pentagon’s acquisition woes are primarily a programming problem rather than an issue with how the department purchases weapons. Congress and the Pentag