ARTICLE: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out, By Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, April 7, 2009; Page A01

What happened here was that Gates was personally confronted by his own sense of impotence in overcoming an amazingly unresponsive acquisition system, and his having to resort to going around it convinced him that a more frontal effort was required. "Today's warfighter," as he put it Monday, needs a bureaucratic home--and constituency.