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HASC Leaders Unveil New Acquisition Reform Bill

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Friday, April 24th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford House Armed Services Committee (HASC) leaders unveiled yesterday a new acquisition-reform bill intended to control spending on major weapon systems by increasing input into and alternatives for their development. "This piece of legislation could well be, at the end of the day, as important to military and defense of our country as the Goldwater-Nichols bill was in 1986," HASC Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) told reporters yesterday. The new Weapons Acquisition System Reform Through Enhancing Technical Knowledge and Oversight (WASTE…

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