Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall spoke at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ SciTech 2014 conference Wednesday about maintaining the military’s technical superiority in a time of constrained budgets, noting that research and development -- chiefly, retaining concepts and talent through R&D accounts when the services cannot afford to push a program into procurement yet -- was a smart way to ensure a healthy future military. The undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics noted that Congress just this…
