The Department of Defense has scuttled the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). In a memorandum signed last week, Defense Secretary Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg directed the “disestablishment” of JCIDS as part of an effort to streamline and accelerate acquisition.

While the joint requirements process sounds very bureaucratic, this effort has the potential to have a dramatic impact on the development and fielding of systems used by our warfighters.

Here’s how: The JCIDS review was tucked in at the end of Executive Order (EO) 14265, “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” issued on April 8 amid the torrent of spring Trump administration EOs. Most of the attention at the time focused on acquisition proce

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