Charles Tiefer: NDAA reform a bad idea

The House of Representatives will vote this week on the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith told Bloomberg the House and Senate conferees have a deal, so the vote could come before Friday. That bill includes a provision that would give service chiefs more oversight over major acquisitions. Frank Kendall, the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics recently gave some oversight of acquisitions to the secretaries of the service branches. But giving away that oversight is a bad idea no matter who OSD gives it to, Charles Tiefer, professor of contract law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a former commissioner on the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, told In Depth with Francis Rose. He wrote in Forbes about why he thinks the NDAA's reform is a bad idea.