Carter: Congress' cuts 'starve' new tech investments in favor of LCS and other priorities

By Tony Bertuca / September 23, 2016 at 2:09 PM
Defense Secretary Ash Carter criticized congressional appropriators during a Sept. 22 visit to Capitol Hill, citing proposed cuts to an array of weapon system improvement programs including electronic warfare, undersea drones and missile modernization that fall under the Pentagon's push for "Third Offset" technologies. Lawmakers, Carter said in written testimony submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, reduced fiscal year 2017 spending on "high-priority investments that we should be making in high-end capabilities, and then spent more money on lower-priority...

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