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Homeland Security

Competition Saves Government ‘Hundreds of Millions,’ MDA Director Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

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Competing missile defense contracts saves the government money, brings innovative ideas to the fore, and offers the government more controls, the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) told a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) panel. “We have a trend. Every time we’ve competed a contract we’ve saved hundreds of millions of dollars, [and] this is all over the past year alone,” Army Lt. Gen Patrick O’Reilly, MDA director, told the SASC panel on Strategic Forces yesterday. Expanding on the…

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