Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to review its Army acquisition program.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to review its Army acquisition program.

In an April 30 memo to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Hegseth ordered wide changes to the division.

“To ensure the Army [is] prepared for the complex and evolving battlefield of the future, the Secretary of Defense directed the Secretary of the Army to rebuild out Army, restore the warrior ethos, and reestablish deterrence,” the Defense Department said Thursday in a statement.

The memo directs Driscoll to implement a transformation strategy, eliminate wasteful spending, reform its acquisition process and more. He was also pressed to expand the military branch’s capabilities for “future warfare,” including long-range missiles, the use of artificial intelligence and advance manufacturing, per the memo.

Hegseth also asked the Army chief to accelerate modernization by cutting outdated programs and scale back wasteful spending.

The memo also orders larger charges within the U.S. Army, which include merging headquarters, reducing and restructuring manned attack helicopter formations and modifying spending contracts, among other tasks.

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