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DoD To Brief Hill On Acquisition Office Breakup

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017

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DoD To Brief Hill On Acquisition Office Breakup

Robert Work, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Photo: Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense plans to brief lawmakers in the coming days on how it intends to implement a congressional mandate to split the undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) into two separate positions, a senior Pentagon official said May 3.“We just briefed [Defense] Secretary [Jim] Mattis on our initial plan to make the split,” Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel. “He has given us permission now to come forward. We will start…

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