German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has made speed the top priority in military procurement, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday, in a push to overhaul procedures previously criticised as slow and ineffective.
"The time factor has highest priority and is ... with immediate effect decisive for providing the troops as quickly as possible with the equipment to be purchased," the state secretary in charge of procurement, Benedikt Zimmer, said in a decree signed on Tuesday.
