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Carter Wants To Lower Entry Barriers To DoD Market For Start Up Firms

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 27th, 2015

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Carter Wants To Lower Entry Barriers To DoD Market For Start Up Firms

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

As part of his pitch last week to strengthen relationships between the Defense Department and technology innovators in Silicon Valley, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Friday said that his department needs to make it easier for start-up firms to work with DoD.Pointing out that the Pentagon’s and the federal government’s acquisition bureaucracy is large and “a rather slow and stodgy buyer,” Carter said that this favors companies that “know ho to deal with bureaucracy…over ones that have the best technology.…

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