The Navy must better identify programmatic risks before asking Congress to authorize and appropriate funding for a major acquisition program such as the multibillion-dollar Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to the service's acquisition executive. During an Oct. 1 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sean Stackley said calculating a better cost estimation is not the answer for cost overruns. "It's not just the cost estimate, it's the next two or three layers below that that the estimators are pointing at that identify...
