Acquisition challenge: 100 new starts in 2004-08. (Washington Pulse).This summer, the Marine Corps will inaugurate in·au·gu·rate tr.v. in·au·gu·rat·ed, in·au·gu·rat·ing, in·au·gu·rates 1. To induct into office by a formal ceremony. 2. its "Acquisition Campus," located about two miles north of the Quantico Marine Base, in Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). . About 1,000 acquisition professionals will be moving in as early as July, said Brig Brig, town, Switzerland Brig (brēk), Fr. Brigue, town, Valais canton, S Switzerland, on the Rhône River, at the north entrance of the Simplon Tunnel. . Gen. James M. Feigley, chief of the Marine Corps Systems Command Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) is located at MCB Quantico. Mission Serve as the Commandant's principal agent for acquisition and sustainment of systems and equipment used by the operating forces to accomplish their warfighting mission. . As they settle in their new digs, these acquisition workers will need to get busy very quickly, because the Marine Corps has challenged them to field at least 100 new products between fiscal years 2004 and 2008. "It's a new rule at the Marine Corps," Feigley told a recent industry conference. "Our goal for POM 2004 [the five-year spending plan that begins in 2004] is 100 new starts," he said. What that means is that "we have to start delivering products within that POM cycle." |
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