By Emelie Rutherford A senior lawmaker said he sees merit in a proposal to mandate defense firms turn over technical specifications of their weapon systems to the Pentagon to allow additional companies to build the equipment. "We might have to do it at some point," House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) said in an interview last Friday. "We probably have to have a hearing on that to make sense" of the proposal. HASC member Rep. Gene Taylor…
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