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Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has approved two high-tech military radios for production that will thoroughly revolutionize the way in which U.S. soldiers and other warfighters operate on future battlefields. The radios are compact, "software-reconfigurable" communications devices developed
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Date:
6/22/2011
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter today unveiled guidance that will help drive the Pentagon's $100 billion efficiency drive over the next half-decade. The guidance is distilled from insights provided by hundreds of professionals both inside and outside the defense department, and seems to
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Date:
9/14/2010
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter called me today to clarify a key point about his ongoing efficiency drive. Carter said he was an avid reader of Lexington's briefs and liked this week's assessment of the efficiency initiative, but despite his polite and positive comments he was clearly
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Date:
7/23/2010
The initial public reaction of senior defense-industry officials to the Pentagon's latest cost-cutting initiative was positive, but behind the scenes executives are confused and worried. They don't doubt the sincerity or logic of what defense acquisition czar Ashton Carter is trying to do in targeting
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Date:
6/29/2010
The Department of Defense today will propose a series of cost-cutting initiatives intended to reduce the budgetary burden of contracting for military goods and services. In meetings with industry executives, acquisition workers and the media, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology
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Date:
6/28/2010

