GAO is making recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on ways to improve DOD's acquisition process to achieve better outcomes by incorporating best practices to capture design and manufacturing knowledge and then use this knowledge as a basis for decisions to commit significant additional time and money as an acquisition program progresses through system demonstration and into production.
The DOD is the Department of Defense, and is overseen by the Secretary of Defense.
mnli hypothesis: The DOD is the Department of Defense, and is overseen by the Secretary of Defense. premise: GAO is making recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on ways to improve DOD's acquisition process to achieve better outcomes by incorporating best practices to capture design and manufacturing knowledge and then use this knowledge as a basis for decisions to commit significant additional time and money as an acquisition program progresses through system demonstration and into production.