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New Partnership Between Congress and Pentagon Needed, Flournoy Says

New Partnership Between Congress and Pentagon Needed, Flournoy Says
Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy between 2009 and 2012, is a candidate to become defense secretary, if Joe Biden wins the November presidential election (Center for a New American Security Photo).

Michèle Flournoy, a candidate for defense secretary if Joe Biden wins the November election, according to defense analysts, suggested that a new relationship between the Defense Department and Congress is needed to weed out costly, ineffective programs and bolster agile, cutting edge ones. "The department should be held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars wisely, and there's failure at a small scale when you're experimenting and learning and very few dollars are involved and it's necessary to advance the technology, and…

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