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Sarah Zabel, the office\u2019s director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The job was specifically created for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zabel, speaking at a conference hosted by Defense Systems in Arlington Nov. 14, said her role is to look at the whole process to identify how the Air Force can spend less time getting necessary capabilities to the field. It\u2019s not the rules and regulations that are so easy to decry, she said; rather, \u201cin so many ways the rules don\u2019t bind us as much as the habits that people have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One aspirational plan Zabel explained is the notion of colorless money. 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