Gen. Lester L. Lyles, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization Moderator Maj. Gen. Eugene L. Tattini, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center Lt. Just the fact that all of us are here, industry and the Air Force working as partners, is a big change from where we were five or ten years ago.
Partnership is all about trust and trusting each other.
One of the key roles of leadership is to create that trust and have a strong belief in one another. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in rules and procedures, across all levels of government and industry, that are designed to protect us from ourselves and from waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, I got a policy across my desk. The effect of all these rules has been a spiraling cycle of distrust and disempowerment. Fortunately, since Dr. Perry's initial thrust on acquisition reform back in 1994, we are seeing a tearing down of those rules and procedures and a build-up in trust and relationships.