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Levin, McCain Bill Targets Cost-Plus Contracts

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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill they introduced Monday. SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters the legislation is intended to thwart defense program cost overruns resulting from, at the Pentagon, rosy assumptions made at program inception, unrealistic performance expectations, unreasonable cost and schedule assumptions, and alteration of program requirements in mid-cycle. "Everything about this bill…

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