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SASC Presses CAPE Director Nominee To Finish Required Reforms, Avoid Biases

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, November 6th, 2025

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SASC Presses CAPE Director Nominee To Finish Required Reforms, Avoid Biases

Michael Payne, nominee to be the Pentagon's next Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Thursday pressed the nominee to lead the Pentagon’s independent cost analysis efforts to finish carrying out required reforms for the office, adding the organization has a “fractured relationship” with Congress. Michael Payne, nominee to be the next director of the Defense Department Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office, committed to ensuring the organization is free of bias and acknowledged he’s seen such cases previously. “At times in the past,…

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