Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante is going to Brussels next week to urge NATO armaments directors to continue surging weapons production to assist Ukraine and deter Russia, but he noted today that he will be doing so as Congress, unable to pass defense spending bills and other appropriations packages, is sliding toward a government shutdown . “It's just bad every way you look at it,” he said today at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. LaPlante, who...
