Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly acquire new technology.

Addressing industry leaders and military officials at the National War College in Washington, D.C., Hegseth detailed his vision for the Defense Acquisition System, which he said is now renamed to the “Warfighting Acquisitions System.”

“We need acquisition and industry to be as strong and fast as our war fighters,” Hegseth said. “The Warfighting Acquisition System will dramatically shorten timelines, improve and expand the defense industrial base, boost competition and empower acquisition officials to take risks and make trade-offs.”

He added: “We're leaving the old, failed process behind, and will instead embrace a new agile and results-oriented approach that used to take sometimes — when you add it up with requirements — three to eight years, we believe can happen within a year.”

The reforms target what the Trump administration sees as an unacceptably slow procurement process, with officials blaming bureaucracy and misaligned incentives that have hindered the military's ability to get new technology into the hands of warfighters quickly.

The overhaul follows an executive order signed by President Trump in April, titled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense........

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