The participants attribute some procurement difficulty to decisions changing between administrations and turnover among service secretaries. The participants disagree over whether the office had historically been treated as important. One then questions the transferability of venture-capital experience to running a military service. Another distinguishes the role of that profession in society from the requirements of service leadership. No individual officeholder is named.
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Competing views on continuity in American naval procurement
A discussion of procurement continuity turns to differing views about the background required for service leadership.