Pentagon acquisition czar Pete Aldridge has refused to approve the Navy's fiscal year 2004 mine countermeasures plan because the Navy submitted it to his office "too late to certify," Inside the Navy has learned. This is the first time the Office of the Secretary of Defense has refused to certify the Navy's mine warfare plan since Congress started asking for the reports in the early 1990s, a Pentagon source said. The Pentagon now plans to increase oversight of mine warfare...
