Latest Pentagon 'roadmap' reveals serious frustration.

From: National Defense | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Erwin, Sandra I. | Copyright information

WHEN PENTAGON OFFICIALS ARE confronted with questions for which they lack clear answers, they turn to one of the bureaucracy's preferred stratagems: the roadmap.

At the Defense Department, there are roadmaps for just about everything--network-centric warfare, unmanned vehicles, strategic communications, hypersonic weapons ... The list goes on.

Roadmaps--which involve lengthy studies and exhaustive reports--can be quite useful in highly technical areas that req...

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