F-35 Production Move Was 'Acquisition Malpractice:' Top DoD Buyer -- Aol Defense
WASHINGTON: Given earlier comments by the F-35 program head, today's remarks by the acting head of Pentagon acquisition that "putting the F-35 into production years before the first test flight was acquisition malpractice," isn't really news so much as confirmation that senior Pentagon leaders know mistakes were made.
Frank Kendall, who has been nominated to take the chair as undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told a Feb. 6 event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies here, that the decision "should not have been done" and that "now we're paying the price for being wrong." This was Kendall's first public appearance since he was nominated to lead the Pentagon's acquisition efforts.
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