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Army Secretary Nominee Driscoll: Service Needs To Improve ‘As A Customer’

Army Secretary Nominee Driscoll: Service Needs To Improve ‘As A Customer’
Dan Driscoll, Trump's nominee for Army secretary. Photo: Dan Driscoll For Congress

Army secretary nominee Dan Driscoll on Thursday shed light on his planned approach for bolstering munitions production capacity and defense innovation efforts, telling lawmakers the service needs to improve “as a customer.” Driscoll at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee offered his view on the Army’s modernization push and signature efforts such as the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft and Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), and in pre-written responses stated the service’s “technological edge is shrinking” and…

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