The United States’ industrial might helped save the free world in World War II. William Knudsen, the Detroit auto titan turned wartime production chief, put it simply: “We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production.”

Could the U.S. meet a similar mobilization challenge today? The answer is likely no without real changes to our acquisition system — and our adversaries know it.

That’s why the House Armed Services Committee is advancing the SPEED Act — a bold, bipartisan reform effort to overhaul our broken acquisition system.

Our acquisition process is too slow, risk-averse and bureaucratic to deliver the capabilities that service members need. It incentivizes compliance over capability, process over speed and certitude over innovation.

While China can field new m

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