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US: Military technology projects face new oversight
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apesphere on 22 May 2009
From: www.nytimes.com
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| Image courtesy Bernt Rostad via Flickr |
A bill to be signed into law today will rein in projects with massive overruns and require better testing of new technologies before production.
The bill has already been unanimously approved by the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
According to the New York Times report, "Pentagon officials would also be required to weigh trade-offs among cost, schedule and performance objectives."
Andrew Newton is the author of The Handbook of Compliance: Making Ethics Work in Financial Services
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- Topics: Politics & Regulation, communities, employees, house of representatives (us), military, military contractors, military spending, military technology, obama administration, president obama, the pentagon, united states senate, us house of representatives, us senate, usa & canada, white house
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