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Air Force

House Panel Wants Industrial Base Impacts Weighed In Defense Programs

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Monday, September 8th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford House appropriators want the Pentagon to consider how its acquisition programs impact the domestic industrial base, and are calling on defense officials to explain how such workforce considerations factor into the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker program. "The Committee is deeply concerned with the potential implications to the national industrial base with the trend in the Department of Defense towards contracting for major defense acquisition programs that are developed and produced overseas," states the report accompanying the…

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