House Lawmaker Calls For Speeding Up The Fielding Of Military Technologies

By John Liang / March 15, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The development and deployment of promising military technologies needs to be sped up, a senior House lawmaker said this week. "What I'm going to try to do is to . . . help the services get systems fielded quickly," House Armed Services military research and development subcommittee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said yesterday. The congressman cited the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle as an example of fielding a technology before the usual round of testing and evaluation is completed. Late last...

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