The Navy last year began planning for an unmanned Aegis self-defense test ship only after repeated arm-twisting by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, according to a Defense Department report. The Pentagon's top weapons tester argues the platform is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of the service's $55 billion Flight III modernization program for the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer fleet. The 2017 annual report by Robert Behler, the director of operational test and evaluation, reveals new details about the bureaucratic...
