{"id":24833,"date":"2016-04-19T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:28:02","slug":"jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition","title":{"rendered":"JROC Speeds Up &amp; Opens Up: Reforming The Dark Heart of Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice and long overdue; however, finally happening and that\u2019s good as long as security and safety are not compromised.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>PENTAGON: One of the most important \u2014 and most maligned \u2014 elements of the Pentagon bureaucracy has gotten 30 percent faster, according to data exclusively compiled for <em>Breaking Defense<\/em> by the staff of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. In a new drive for openness, the infamously opaque JROC is also bringing in outside expertise from industry, military laboratories and the Defense Department\u2019s in-house disruptive innovators at <a href=\"http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/04\/robot-brains-where-you-want-em-raytheon-on-autonomy\/\">DARPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reforming the Joint Requirements Oversight Council is a big deal. The military\u2019s weapons-buying bureaucracy is a maze, and at the dark heart of the labyrinth lurks the JROC, which must approve the official wish list \u2014 the <a href=\"http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/requirements\/\">requirements<\/a> \u2014 for almost any major program. Led by the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs, <a href=\"http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/01\/the-terminator-conundrum-vcjcs-selva-on-thinking-weapons\/\">Gen. Paul Selva<\/a>, and comprising the No. 2 officers of each service, supported by lesser boards and lower-ranking working groups, the JROC has a reputation for delaying, watering down, or killing the armed services\u2019 proposals. Many believe it\u2019s where good ideas go to die \u2014 slowly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition2.jpg\" alt=\"JROC processing time\" width=\"684\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/JROC-processing-time-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/JROC-processing-time.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px)  100vw, 684px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/04\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-reforming-the-dark-heart-of-acquisition\/\">http:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2016\/04\/jroc-speeds-up-opens-up-r...quisition\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice and long overdue; however, finally happening and that\u2019s good as long as security and safety are not compromised. PENTAGON: One of the most important \u2014 and most maligned \u2014 elements of the Pentagon bureaucracy has gotten 30 percent faster, according to data exclusively compiled for Breaking Defense by the staff of the Joint Requirements [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61999,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24833\/revisions\/61999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}