Chamber's Letter to SecWar Hegseth on Acquisition Reform

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently sent a letter to Secretary of War Peter Hegseth supporting the Department’s new Warfighting Acquisition System and broader acquisition reform agenda. Drawing on input from Chamber members across the defense industrial base, the letter underscores that faster, more flexible acquisition is essential to closing critical capability gaps, rebuilding American industrial capacity, and maintaining technological dominance for the United States and its allies. The Chamber outlines specific steps to expand competition and modularity, stabilize demand signals and unlock private capital, empower portfolio-level acquisition management, and modernize requirements and foreign military sales. By submitting this letter, the Chamber is signaling its readiness to partner with the Department and Congress to ensure these reforms are implemented with urgency and discipline so that space, aerospace, and other critical capabilities can be fielded at speed and at scale.

You can find the full letter available for download on this webpage.

About the authors

John Neal

John Neal serves as the Executive Director for Space Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce where he leads the Chamber’s Space Industry Council.

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Benjamin Kron

Ben Kron serves as a Senior Manager of Cyber, Space and NatSec Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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