Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist said today major Pentagon "new-start" programs, including the Navy's Columbia-class submarine and the Army's new soldier night vision system, would be delayed should Congress pass a stopgap continuing resolution Oct. 1, rather than a regular budget for fiscal year 2021. “In a government where speed and efficiency is always a challenge and you're trying to push, the CR pushes things to be slower and more inefficient and wasteful,” he told the House Budget Committee. Norquist...
