By Marina Malenic The Defense Department will in the coming years have to enforce greater fiscal discipline, particularly on major weapons acquisitions, as its budget growth slows dramatically, the department's top weapons buyer said yesterday. Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said that, at the height of the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan "money was available for exquisite capabilities" and "when difficult business decisions were needed." "The result was that we fell into some…
Carter: Pentagon Must ‘Relearn the Discipline of Affordability’
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