Pentagon officials warned defense contractors today that Congress could be inching closer toward a yearlong stopgap spending bill that could prevent the Defense Department from starting new acquisition programs. Though stopgap "continuing resolutions" are commonplace, they typically don’t last longer than three or four months. But the dreaded "yearlong CR" is referred to in hushed and serious tones among defense acquisition officials and contractors. "I get hurt, you get hurt," Alan Shaffer, the deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition...
