Convincing Congress to remove sequestration will be the greatest challenge facing defense secretary nominee Ashton Carter if he is confirmed, Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said Friday. "His biggest problem, I think, coming in is going to be how do we persuade Congress to remove the threat of sequestration in '16 because it's sitting out there," Kendall said at a Women in Aerospace luncheon in Arlington, VA. Calling sequestration "the stupidest law," Kendall noted that the Defense Department's budget request...
