The Army is taking another swing at slashing its sometimes decades-long procurement cycle by gathering up the many offices that weigh in on requirements and stacking them under a new program office structure.

The six Portfolio Acquisition Executives will compress the previous 12 Program Executive Offices, with the new Transformation and Training Command in the overseeing uniformed position, and the assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology as the civilian boss.

“So we had, arguably, an alphabet soup of requirements folks across both [Army Futures Command] and [Training and Doctrine Command],” Gen. David Hodne, who leads the newly merged Transformation and Training Command , told reporters Wednesday. “So generally, you had…I'll just say over 40 agencies that co

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