McHugh: ISR Assets Should Be Reviewed For Savings Potential

By Sebastian Sprenger / November 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM
Army Secretary John McHugh today singled out Defense Department-wide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets as a "good area" to look at in the Pentagon's search for reducing costly duplications in the services' weapon programs. "The budget will cause us to look at and think about things differently," McHugh said at a breakfast with defense reporters in Washington today. "When money isn't your first consideration you do things [that], in peacetime, you have to relook," he added, alluding to an attitude...

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