Former Defense Secretary William Perry -- who famously held a "Last Supper" with top-level defense industry executives in the early 1990s that led to the consolidation of companies -- is suggesting defense officials be more explicit than he was when dealing with industry in the face of flattened defense budgets. Speaking at a Dec. 3 breakfast with reporters in Washington, Perry said the goal of the 1993 meeting with industry was to make sure the business leaders understood that defense...
