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Nominee For Deputy Acquisition Chief Gets Earful On F-35

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 1st, 2013

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The nominee for the Pentagon position of deputy acquisition chief heard plenty of complaints about the struggling F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program during his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), grilled Alan Estevez, currently the assistant secretary for logistics and materiel readiness, on the program beset with cost overruns and development problems. Estevez noted that over the last several years the Pentagon has worked to…

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