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The U.S. Army is the best equipped in the world. Yet the acquisition work force is continually vilified by the Defense Department’s senior leadership, laments Col. John “Buck” Surdu, military deputy at the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Communications-Electronics Center, or CERDEC.
“It’s a little frustrating for folks who devoted their lives to delivering the best technology to our soldiers … [These folks are being] universally decried as the enemy … and constantly bashed by the people they’re trying to serve,” Surdu tells reporters Nov. 29 during a bloggers roundtable.
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