Lockheed Martin, Raytheon standout as potential beneficiaries of the legislation, with a variety of their programs on the weapons list. However, defense appropriators ultimately control the purse strings.
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“We’re not fighting [in] Ukraine with Silicon Valley right now, even though they’re going to try to take credit for it,” said Pentagon acquisition czar Bill LaPlante.
By Valerie Insinna
“We have to be comfortable as taxpayers funding production lines to produce things that the US may never use. And that’s something that we as a country have to struggle with,” said Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante.
By Valerie Insinna
“There are some very specific issues with regard to Stinger and some obsolescence issues that we have to overcome,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Tuesday. “That’s because we in the US, we’re focusing ourselves forward on new capability.”
By Valerie Insinna
Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, also called Congressional funding reductions on the Army’s IVAS “frankly just good oversight.”
By Jaspreet Gill
“I believe we need multiple hot production lines, whether that be munitions, [unmanned aerial systems] and the like,” said Bill LaPlante, nominated to be the Pentagon’s acquisition czar. “They — up by themselves — are a deterrent, and we need to put much more focus on that across the board.”
By Valerie Insinna
