The Senate Armed Services Committee members aired a number of acquisition concerns in a confirmation hearing with defense secretary-nominee Ashton Carter, noting that weapons development takes too long and weapons sales to allies and partners is too full of red tape.During the hearing, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) told Carter that “you were one of the fathers of the MRAP program...It seems to be that could be a model for what we’re talking about” in terms of providing warfighters with needed…
