Pentagon Testing Chief Says New War Fighting Technologies Need More Testing Dollars

By Thomas Duffy / February 14, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon's top weapons testing official has told Congress the Defense Department is shortchanging its spending on test and evaluation programs and faces the prospect that it will not be able to develop all of the technologies needed to fight in the 21st century. In his annual report to Congress, Philip Coyle, the director of the office of operational test and evaluation, said test and evaluation assets are being squeezed as the services try to stretch their annual budgets across...

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