Timing

By Sebastian Sprenger / March 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM

The Levin-McCain acquisition reform bill still has Pentagon officials busy assessing the legislation's potential implications, we're told. The bill's proposed moves in the areas of cost estimating and developmental test and evaluation are generating the most resistance at the Pentagon, according to sources.

Meanwhile, some defense officials said they are under the assumption that senators will include the bill as an amendment in the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization legislation.

According to Levin spokeswoman Tara Andringa, the way ahead for the legislation is still up in the air. "Sen. Levin has said he has not decided yet whether to mark it up separately or to include it in the NDAA," she wrote in an e-mail yesterday.

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