Letter to the Editor: Pentagon Acquisition Chief

By Ashton Carter

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 A&D Technology and Requirements conference on Feb. 16 ...

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