'If costs go down, profitability goes up'

Assad Previews New Pentagon Pricing Guidance For Acquisition Managers

/ February 25, 2015 at 8:10 PM
The Pentagon will soon be updating its pricing guidance for acquisition program managers to better reflect the ongoing push to drive defense industry profitability through reduced program costs, according to Shay Assad, the Defense Department's director of pricing. "What it will emphasize is the reality that, at the end of the day, we want to pay less for what we buy," he told Inside the Pentagon in a recent interview. "We're trying to use profitability as a motivator to reduce...

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