Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante said the U.S. defense industrial base and that of its allies needs more money to produce weapons at much higher rates if it wants to compete with China and Russia and exit a "vicious circle" of cost cutting and reduced capacity. “The issue we have is fundamentally a resourcing issue right now, both here and internationally,” he said at an event hosted by Axios . “We have found that if you have the resources, sometimes...
