The next steps in defense acquisition reform may come from the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations asks experts from all parts of the defense acquisition community to tell them where the committee should go next to streamline defense acquisition. Beth McGrath of Deloitte is former Deputy Chief Management Officer at the Defense Department and one of the contributors to the committee’s efforts. She worked to institute what she called a cost culture. She didn’t use that phrase in her comments to the committee, but Francis Rose asked her if that concept was written between the lines on In Depth.

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