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Air Force

Depot Changes In DoD Bill Questioned

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

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The defense industry and some lawmakers are sounding alarms about recent changes to the law dictating how depot-level work on military equipment is shared between government and private facilities. An Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) official said the rewrite of the depot provisions, in the recently passed fiscal year 2012 defense authorization act, potentially could deprive small business of work and lead to job losses. Yet he and concerned lawmakers said they are still examining the changes, which senators were surprised to find…

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