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DoD Arms Buyer Warns of More Terminations, Cost Reviews For Programs

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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic The Pentagon's top weapons buyer said yesterday that the department is studying more program terminations and plans to conduct a careful cost scrub of several major acquisitions before allowing them to proceed. "In the spring of 2009, we canceled so many programs that were either unneeded, that we had enough of, were underperforming or whose time was past," said Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics. "We will have to do more of…

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