The Pentagon has assured Congress that six programs with sizeable cost overruns have all been restructured well enough to justify their continued existence, the Defense Department's chief acquisition official said today. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Pete Aldridge signed a letter to Congress today in which he certified that the acquisition strategies for the following six programs are sound and achievable in accordance with the Nunn-McCurdy law that places restrictions on programs that run 25 percent...
