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Pentagon

DoD Official Calls on Industry to Share Cost Data

Friday, September 18th, 2015

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A Pentagon official wants the defense industry to provide greater cost data on weapons program development and production to the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of a “growing partnership” in modernizing the Pentagon’s acquisition programs. “If we’re going to be rigorous in analysis, we need good cost data,” Jamie Morin, director of the DoD’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office, said Thursday at the Atlantic Council. “Capturing cost data is always tenuous,” he said, but it helps the…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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