The Navy's decision to accept a lower reliability rate for its Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasure system will likely force the service to pay higher operations and maintenance costs for the IDECM program, the Defense Department inspector general contends in a report released today . This calls into question the service's ability to continue funding the needed parts and maintenance, according to the IG. Because early versions of the IDECM system were unable to meet the original reliability requirements the standards...