Letter to the Editor: Pentagon Acquisition Chief
To the Editor:
Your editorial of Feb. 21 deplores the idea, supposedly advocated in a speech by me, of consolidation among so-called lower-tier defense companies. But no such idea appears in the speech on industrial policy I gave on Feb. 9 at the Cowen Group or of the speech I gave at Aviation Week’s AD Technology and Requirements conference on Feb. 16.
In fact, they spoke of the central need to preserve and enhance the middle and lower tiers of the defense industry. They also stressed the need to reduce barriers to entry to the defense marketplace to encourage new entrants, creating a conveyor belt of new faces, ideas, and technology into defense. So your editorial not only got it wrong, it got it backwards. I am always open to correction – but not of what I didn’t say.
- Ashton Carter, undersecretary of defense (acquisition, technology, and logistics)
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