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Douglas Bush, the Army's newly confirmed acquisition chief, wants to do more to reform how the service buys and sustains software.

Douglas Bush, the Army's newly confirmed acquisition chief, wants to do more to reform how the service buys and sustains software.

The challenge of making time-relevant decisions exists throughout the Department of Defense, but it is most acute in the newer areas of technology. If we cannot speed up decisions on AI, we have no hope of competing with China.

Challenges that you and some of your colleagues have faced at the border in terms of the budget that we are expecting this week and the expected cuts to things like tsa, can you characterize the situation at happened right now in terms of challenges? >> well, i think it's a very real challenge and part of it is just lining up the budget activity against the policy rhetoric of the administration. i think we all are absolutely delighted that the president is going to upgrade the strength of our national security envelope but there needs to be recognition that the national security envelope in th...

I wouldn't rule out an infrastructure bill. that's being discussed on the hill and at the white house. there may be similar budget activity that is possible, there may even be some warrant tax activity. we'll see on that. >> martha: obviously, paul ryan for years with the other piece of what he wanted to accomplish, he said that today. it is entitlement reform important to you in the president? >> yes, it is. it's a tough thing to do, probably even tougher than tax cuts. i've been down that road. it's always been a priority, it's always been an issue. the budget is not in good shape. we know t...