The Defense Department has notified Congress that the U.S. military will begin seeking foreign sources of a special type of steel used to fortify ground vehicles against armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators (EFP), according to a senior Army official. Army Secretary Pete Geren last week sent a "waiver notification" to the four congressional defense committees that oversee the Defense Department's budget, setting the stage for the U.S. military to supplement steel acquired from domestic suppliers with steel manufactured overseas. "It allows...
